[Footnote 15: The Byzantine historians (Cedrenus, tom. ii.
p. 766, 766, Zonaras tom. ii. p. 255, Nicephorus Bryennius,
p. 21) have confounded, in this revolution, the truth of
time and place, of names and persons, of causes and events.
The ignorance and errors of these Greeks (which I shall not
stop to unravel) may inspire some distrust of the story of
Cyaxares and Cyrus, as it is told by their most eloquent
predecessor.]