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So Cyrus carried the animals in and gave them to his grandfather, saying that he had himself taken this game for him. As for the hunting spears, though he did not show them to him, he laid them down all blood-stained where he thought his grandfather would see them. And then Astyages said: Well, my boy, I am glad to accept what you offer me; however, I do not need any of these things enough for you to risk your life for them.
Well then, grandfather, said Cyrus, if you do 1 not need them, please give them to me, that I may divide them among my boy friends.
All right, my boy, said Astyages, take both this and of the rest of the game as much as you wish and give it to whom you will.
So Cyrus carried the animals in and gave them to his grandfather, saying that he had himself taken this game for him. As for the hunting spears, though he did not show them to him, he laid them down all blood-stained where he thought his grandfather would see them. And then Astyages said: Well, my boy, I am glad to accept what you offer me; however, I do not need any of these things enough for you to risk your life for them.
Well then, grandfather, said Cyrus, if you do 1 not need them, please give them to me, that I may divide them among my boy friends.
All right, my boy, said Astyages, take both this and of the rest of the game as much as you wish and give it to whom you will.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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