Love Story of Panthea and Abradatas, Part Three

In Parts One and Two we have learned—from Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, translated by Walter Miller—of Panthea, the most beautiful woman in Asia, who was captured by Cyrus the Great but treated with such exemplary honor that she volunteered to bring her husband, the chariot commander Abradatas, over to Cyrus's cause.
Indeed Abradatus, out of gratitude
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