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Why not pursue them as swiftly as possible, 1 said one of the men; now that the good things we have let slip are so manifest to us?
Because, he replied, we have not horses enough; for the best of the enemy, those whom it were most desirable either to capture or to kill, are riding off on horseback. With the help of the gods we were able to put them to flight, but we are not able to pursue and overtake them.
Why not pursue them as swiftly as possible, 1 said one of the men; now that the good things we have let slip are so manifest to us?
Because, he replied, we have not horses enough; for the best of the enemy, those whom it were most desirable either to capture or to kill, are riding off on horseback. With the help of the gods we were able to put them to flight, but we are not able to pursue and overtake them.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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