118. So Harpagos declared the truth, and Astyages concealed the anger which he kept against him for that which had come to pass, and first he related the matter over again to Harpagos according as he had been told it by the herdsman, and afterwards, when it had been thus repeated by him, he ended by saying that the child was alive and that that which had come to pass was well, "for," continued he, "I was greatly troubled by that which had been done to this child, and I thought it no light thing that I had been made at variance with my daughter.
118. Harpagok azalpen zuzena egin zuen benetan. Astyagesek, ordea, gertaturikoagatik barruan zeraman mingostasuna gordeaz, lehenik, arazoa berak itzainari entzuniko modu berean birkontatu zion Harpagori, eta, gero, errepikatu ondoren, haurra bederen bizi zela eta gertaturikoa ongi zegoela esanez amaitu zuen.