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“Tell me, then,” said Cyaxares, “do you not consider the Persian force small which you say you are bringing?”“Yes,” said Cyrus; “but we will consider later1 whether we need more men or not. Now tell me,” he went on, “what each party's method of fighting is.”“About the same with all,” said Cyaxares; “for there are bowmen and spearmen both on their side and on ours.”“Well then,” said Cyrus, “as their arms are of that sort, we must fight at long range.”
1 Their method of warfare
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
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