For Cyrus the son of Cambyses had conquered Astyages and was keeping him in captivity, who was brother by marriage to Croesus and king of the Medes:
batetik, lur-gosez, bere sailari gehiago erantsi nahi baitzion eta, bestetik, orakuluarekiko uste osoa zuenez, Zyrori Astyagesena ordainaraztea desiratzen baitzuen.