...e gate a little asked him who he was and why he came; he told them that he was Zopyrus and was deserting to them. When they heard this, the gatekeepers brought him before the general assembly of the Babylon ians, where he made a pitiful sight, saying that he had suffered at the hands of Darius what he had suffered at his own because he had advised the king to lead his army away, since they could find no ...