80. So when the armies had met in that plain which is in front of the city of Sardis,-a plain wide and open, through which flow rivers (and especially the river Hyllos) all rushing down to join the largest called Hermos, which flows from the mountain sacred to the Mother surnamed "of Dindymos" and runs out into the sea by the city of Phocaia,-then Cyrus, when he saw the Lydians being arrayed for battle, fearing their horsemen, did on the suggestion of Harpagos a Mede as follows:-all the camels which were in the train of his army carrying provisions and baggage he gathered together, and he took off their burdens and set men upon them provided with the equipment of cavalry:
80. Eta gudaroste biek Sardesko hiri aurrean dagoen lautada handi eta gorrian elkar jo zuten (Hylo eta beste ibaiak bertan barrena joanik, Hermo deritzan handienean ibairatzen dira, hau, Dindymongo Amaren mendi sakratutik abiatuz, Phozeako hirirantz itsasoratzen delarik); leku honetan Zyrok, lydiarrak erasoeran jartzen ikusi zituenean, zaldieriari beldur baitzion, hona zer egin zuen Harpago soldadu mediarraren adierazpenez: