No, by Zeus, said the captain, at any rate not on the same day, unless you will furnish us with double stomachs as well.
Thus they brought that dinner to a close. And on the following day Cyrus invited that company, as he had promised, and again the next day. And when the others heard about it, they all followed, in the future, the example of that company.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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