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Following him, all the Medes spoke to this1 effect: “It is you, Cyrus, that have brought us out here, and when you think the time to return has come, lead us back with you.”And when Cyrus heard that, he uttered this prayer: “Hear me, I beseech thee, O Zeus almighty, and grant that in service to them I may surpass the honour they show to me.”
1 The whole Median contingent stays with Cyrus
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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