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After this time, Astyages sent for his own daughter and her child. For he desired to see him, because he heard that he was beautiful and good. And Mandane herself comes to her father, and she brings her son Cyrus.

And as soon as he arrived, and Cyrus recognized Astyages as his mother's father, immediately, as a child naturally affectionate, he greeted him, just as if someone had been raised with him long ago, and greeted him as one who had long loved him. And seeing him adorned with eye makeup, and rubbing of color on his face, and with added hair wigs or hairpieces, which were customs among the Medes (for these things are all Median, and the purple tunics, and the kandyes Persian outer garments, and the necklaces around the neck, and the bracelets around the arms; but among the Persians at home, even now there are much simpler clothes and more frugal diets), seeing indeed the finery of his grandfather, looking at him, he said: Mother, how beautiful my grandfather is. And when his mother asked him which one seemed more beautiful to him, his father or this man, Cyrus answered: Mother, of the Persians, my father is by far the most beautiful; but of the Medes, as many as I have seen both in the streets and at the doors, this grandfather of mine is by far the most beautiful.

And Astyages greeted him in return, and dressed him in a beautiful outfit, and honored him with necklaces and bracelets, and adorned him. And if he drove out anywhere, he took him around on a horse with a golden bridle, just as he himself was accustomed to ride.