Now as soon as he was chosen, his first act was to consult the gods; and not till he had sacrificed and the omens were propitious, did he proceed to choose his two hundred men. And when these also had chosen each his four, he called them all together and then addressed them for the first time as follows:
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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