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But when Cyrus and his men were getting 1 nearer to the heights, Tigranes, who was marching with Cyrus, said: Do you know, Cyrus, that we ourselves shall have to do the fighting, and in a very few moments? For the Armenians, I am sure, will never sustain the enemy’s attack.
Cyrus answered that he knew that and gave the command to the Persians to make ready, as it would be necessary in a moment to give chase, as soon as the Armenians by pretending flight should decoy the enemy into close quarters.
But when Cyrus and his men were getting 1 nearer to the heights, Tigranes, who was marching with Cyrus, said: Do you know, Cyrus, that we ourselves shall have to do the fighting, and in a very few moments? For the Armenians, I am sure, will never sustain the enemy’s attack.
Cyrus answered that he knew that and gave the command to the Persians to make ready, as it would be necessary in a moment to give chase, as soon as the Armenians by pretending flight should decoy the enemy into close quarters.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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