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[13] Thereupon they all went their way and proceeded so to do. At daybreak on the following day the staff-officers presented themselves at the gates of the king. So
Cyrus went in with them to Cyaxares and began to speak as follows:
I am sure, Cyaxares, said he, that you have 1 this long time been thinking no less than we of the proposition that I am going to lay before you; but perhaps you hesitate to broach the subject for fear it should be thought that you speak of an expedition from here because you are embarrassed at having to maintain us.
I am sure, Cyaxares, said he, that you have 1 this long time been thinking no less than we of the proposition that I am going to lay before you; but perhaps you hesitate to broach the subject for fear it should be thought that you speak of an expedition from here because you are embarrassed at having to maintain us.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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