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And after dinner, as the party was breaking up, 1 Cyrus asked: Tell me, Tigranes, where is the man who used to hunt with us? You seemed to admire him very much.
Ah, he replied, did not my father here have him put to death?
What wrong did he find him doing?
He said that he was corrupting me. And yet, Cyrus, said he, he was so noble and so good that when he was about to be put to death, he called me to him and said: Be not angry with your father, Tigranes, for putting me to death; for he does it, not from any spirit of malice, but from ignorance, and when men do wrong from ignorance, I believe they do it quite against their will.
And after dinner, as the party was breaking up, 1 Cyrus asked: Tell me, Tigranes, where is the man who used to hunt with us? You seemed to admire him very much.
Ah, he replied, did not my father here have him put to death?
What wrong did he find him doing?
He said that he was corrupting me. And yet, Cyrus, said he, he was so noble and so good that when he was about to be put to death, he called me to him and said: Be not angry with your father, Tigranes, for putting me to death; for he does it, not from any spirit of malice, but from ignorance, and when men do wrong from ignorance, I believe they do it quite against their will.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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