...sian who had been the slave of one of the guards of the acropolis and had discovered a way down to the river and up again by the same route. When it became known that the citadel was taken, all the Lydia ns immediately fled from the walls to whatever part of the city they could. And Cyrus at daybreak entered the city and gave orders that not a man of his should stir from his post. But Croesus shut hi...