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Thus the Armenian king spoke.
Now the Chaldaeans had come back with the request that Cyrus should make peace with them. And Cyrus asked them: Is this the reason that you, Chaldaeans, now desire peace, because you think, that since we are in possession of these heights, you could live in greater security if we had peace than if we were at war?
The Chaldaeans assented.
Thus the Armenian king spoke.
Now the Chaldaeans had come back with the request that Cyrus should make peace with them. And Cyrus asked them: Is this the reason that you, Chaldaeans, now desire peace, because you think, that since we are in possession of these heights, you could live in greater security if we had peace than if we were at war?
The Chaldaeans assented.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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