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Now when the boy was ten years old, the truth about him was revealed in some such way as this. He was playing in the village where these herdsmen's quarters were, playing in the road with others of his age. The boys while playing chose to be their king this one who was supposed to be the son of the cowherd.
Now when the boy was ten years old, the truth about him was revealed in some such way as this. He was playing in the village where these herdsmen's quarters were, playing in the road with others of his age. The boys while playing chose to be their king this one who was supposed to be the son of the cowherd.
[2] Then he assigned some of them to the building of houses, some to be his bodyguard, one doubtless to be the
King's Eye; to another he gave the right of bringing him messages; to each he gave his proper work.
[3] Now one of these boys playing with him was the son of
Artembares, a notable
Mede; when he did not perform his assignment from
Cyrus,
Cyrus told the other boys to seize him, and when they did so he handled the boy very roughly and whipped him.
[4] As soon as he was let go, very upset about the indignity he had suffered, he went down to his father in the city and complained of what he had received at the hands of the son of
Astyages' cowherd—not calling him
Cyrus, for that name had not yet been given.
[5]
Artembares, going just as angry as he was to
Astyages and bringing his son along, announced that an impropriety had been committed, saying, “O King, by your slave, the son of a cowherd, we have been outraged thus”: and with that he bared his son's shoulders.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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