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Thus Cyrus praised his soldiers, laughing at 1 the same time. But one of his captains, Aglaïtadas by name, one of the most austere of men, happened to be in Cyrus’s tent at the same time and he spoke somewhat as follows: You don’t mean to say, Cyrus, that you think what these fellows have been telling is true?
Well said Cyrus, what object could they have, pray, in telling a lie?
What object, indeed, said the other, except that they wanted to raise a laugh; and so they tell these stories and try to humbug us.
Thus Cyrus praised his soldiers, laughing at 1 the same time. But one of his captains, Aglaïtadas by name, one of the most austere of men, happened to be in Cyrus’s tent at the same time and he spoke somewhat as follows: You don’t mean to say, Cyrus, that you think what these fellows have been telling is true?
Well said Cyrus, what object could they have, pray, in telling a lie?
What object, indeed, said the other, except that they wanted to raise a laugh; and so they tell these stories and try to humbug us.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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