... with each of the chief Medes and persuaded them to make Cyrus their leader and depose Astyages. So much being ready and done, Harpagus wanted to reveal his intent to Cyrus, who then lived among the Persia ns. But the roads were guarded, and he had no plan for sending a message but this: he carefully slit the belly of a hare, and then leaving it as it was without further harm he put into it a paper on...