Note 27* — FIRST DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
[27] P. 36:
◆It is not Semiramis, but Thomyris, who, according to Justin (Bk. I.) and Herodotus (Bk. II.), thrust the head of Cyrus into a vat of blood. Xenophon says, on the contrary, that Cyrus died a natural death.