cuius ortus ad imperium totius Asiae spectantis maternus avus Astyages duo praenuntia somnia frustra discutere temptavit, Mandanen filiam suam, quod in quiete viderat urinam eius omnes Asiaticas gentes inundasse, non Medorum excellentissimo, ne in eius familiam regni decus transferretur, sed Persarum modicae fortunae viro collocando, natumque Cyrum exponi iubendo, quia similiter quietis temporibus existimaverat genitali parte Mandanes <e>natam vitem eo usque crevisse donec cunctas dominationis suae partes inumbraret: frustratus est enim se ipse nepotis felicitatem caelestium iudicio destinatam humanis consiliis impedire conando.
His maternal grandfather Astyages tried in vain to shake off two dreams, harbingers of Cyrus birth that looked toward the empire of all Asia: by marrying his daughter Mandane, not to the noblest of the Medes, lest the glory of kingship pass into his family, but to a Persian of middling degree, because he had seen in a dream that her urine inundated all Asiatic peoples; and by ordering Cyrus exposed at birth because likewise in sleep he had thought that a vine, sprung from Mandanes genitals, grew so high that it overshadowed all parts of his realm. For he frustrated himself in trying to impede by human counsels the good fortune of his grandson, destined as it was by the decree of the celestials.
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