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Tell me then, said the other, did you ever have a war with Astyages, my mother’s father, and with the rest of the Medes?
Yes, he answered, I did.
And when you were conquered by him, did you agree to pay tribute and to join his army, wherever he should command you to go, and to own no forts?
Those are the facts.
Why, then, have you now failed to pay the tribute and to send the troops, and why have you been building forts?
I longed for liberty; for it seemed to me to be a glorious thing both to be free myself and to bequeath liberty to my children.
Tell me then, said the other, did you ever have a war with Astyages, my mother’s father, and with the rest of the Medes?
Yes, he answered, I did.
And when you were conquered by him, did you agree to pay tribute and to join his army, wherever he should command you to go, and to own no forts?
Those are the facts.
Why, then, have you now failed to pay the tribute and to send the troops, and why have you been building forts?
I longed for liberty; for it seemed to me to be a glorious thing both to be free myself and to bequeath liberty to my children.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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