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Darius now, still keeping to the plan agreed upon, attacked the walls
on every side, whereupon Zopyrus played out the remainder of his
stratagem. While the Babylonians, crowding to the walls, did their
best to resist the Persian assault, he threw open the Cissian and the
Belian gates, and admitted the enemy. Such of the Babylonians as
witnessed the treachery, took refuge in the temple of Jupiter Belus;
the rest, who did not see it, kept at their posts, till at last they
too learnt that they were betrayed.
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