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But Cyrus was delighted, and laughed, and said to the man who had brought the women:
‘Dost thou not see at once that this is the only free and unperverted woman thou hast brought me?’ From this time on he was devoted to her, and loved her above all women, and called her The Wise. She was taken prisoner when Cyrus fell in the battle at Cunaxa and his camp was plundered.1
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. 11.
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