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[5] And when Cyrus saw¹ this he surrounded the hill with the troops he had with him and sent orders to Chrysantas to leave a guard upon the mountains and come. Thus Cyrus’s army was being brought together.
Then he sent a herald to the Armenian to ask him the following question: Tell me, king of Armenia , he said, whether you prefer to remain there and fight against hunger and thirst, or to come down into the plain and fight it out with us?
The Armenian answered that he had no wish to fight against either.

Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.

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Cyropaedia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol 5-6. Miller, Walter,editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.)

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[5] ὁ δʼ αὖ Κῦρος ταῦτα ἰδὼν περιίσταται τὸν λόφον τῷ παρόντι στρατεύματι, καὶ πρὸς Χρυσάνταν πέμψας ἐκέλευε φυλακὴν τοῦ ὄρους καταλιπόντα ἥκειν. τὸ μὲν δὴ στράτευμα ἡθροίζετο τῷ Κύρῳ· ὁ δὲ πέμψας πρὸς τὸν Ἀρμένιον κήρυκα ἤρετο ὧδε· εἰπέ μοι, ἔφη, ὦ Ἀρμένιε, πότερα βούλει αὐτοῦ μένων τῷ λιμῷ καὶ τῷ δίψει μάχεσθαι ἢ εἰς τὸ ἰσόπεδον καταβὰς ἡμῖν διαμάχεσθαι; ἀπεκρίνατο ὁ Ἀρμένιος ὅτι οὐδετέροις βούλοιτο μάχεσθαι.

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