One post shall run to meet another, &c.] So spatious was the citie, and so suddenly surprised at a festivall, that the surprisall was not soon generally known; it was three dayes, say some authors, ere the report of the taking of it on the one side, came to those on the other side; some good space of time, ere to those in the midst of the citie. Herodot. lib. 1. Aristot. politic. l. 3. c. 2. to shew the king of Babylon that his citie is taken] Chap. 50. 43. at one end] On the one side: where Cyrus, by diverting the course of the river, had made way for surprisall of it.