Love Story of Panthea and Abradatas, Part Two

[In Part One from last week, we learned---from Xenophon's Cyropaedia, translated by Walter Miller---how Cyrus the Great had captured the beautiful Panthea but refused to violate her honor. Out of gratitude for Cyrus's nobility, Panthea proposed to bring her husband Abradatas over from the enemy and enlist him and his thousand charioteers in Cyrus's cause.
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