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My boy, how will you learn justice here, while your teachers are over there?
Why, mother, Cyrus answered, that is one thing that I understand thoroughly.
How so? said Mandane.
Because said he, my teacher appointed me, 1 on the ground that I was already thoroughly versed in justice, to decide cases for others also. And so, in one case, said he, I once got a flogging for not deciding correctly.
Why, mother, Cyrus answered, that is one thing that I understand thoroughly.
How so? said Mandane.
Because said he, my teacher appointed me, 1 on the ground that I was already thoroughly versed in justice, to decide cases for others also. And so, in one case, said he, I once got a flogging for not deciding correctly.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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