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“Well,” said Hystaspas in reply, “for my part,1 I cannot tell yet how they will appear in the face of the enemy. But in social intercourse, by the gods, some of them seem ill-mannered enough. The other day, at any rate,” he explained, “Cyaxares had meat sent in to each company, and as it was passed around each one of us got three pieces or even more. And the first time round the cook began with me as he passed it around; but when he came in the second time to pass it, I bade him begin with the last and pass it around the other way.
1 A story of bad manners
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XVI
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the subject.
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Omission of parts of the simple sentence
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