On the death of Cyrus, Cambyses his son by Cassandane daughter
of Pharnaspes took the kingdom. Cassandane had died in the lifetime of
Cyrus, who had made a great mourning for her at her death, and had
commanded all the subjects of his empire to observe the like.
Cambyses, the son of this lady and of Cyrus, regarding the Ionian
and Aeolian Greeks as vassals of his father, took them with him in his
expedition against Egypt among the other nations which
