原文 (英語)

CHAPTER XII. Seven weeks after Nitetis had quitted her native country, a long train of equipages and horsemen was to be seen on the king's highway from the west to Babylon, moving steadily towards that gigantic city, whose towers might already be descried in the far distance. [The great road called the "king's road," of which we shall have more to say, was made by Cyrus and carefully kept up by Darius.] The principal object in this caravan was a richly-gilded, four-wheeled