Francis Patrick Kenrick

St. Jerome writes : " Let ns reed the history of the elder Cyrus in eight books by Xenophon, Mid we shall see that the prediction of Isaiah was fulfilled. For what city did not lie open to him ? what kings did he not subdue? what walls previously impregnable were not overthrown by his assaults?" Al. remarks, that Herodotus speaks of the gates which led to the river having been left open on the night of the attack ; and Xenophon says, that the doors of the palace itself having been unguardedly left open, the invaders took possession of it almost without resistance.