And Cyrus, laughing, said: How much would you take to have your wife told that you were a camp-follower?
Why said he, she will not need to be told anything about it; for I shall take her with me, so that she will be in a position to see whatever I do.
Then said he, it may be high time for you to be getting your things together.
Be sure, said he, that we shall be here with everything brought together that my father gives us.
And when the soldiers had received their presents they went to bed.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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