As it was summer, Croesus, the king of Lydia , had had his women sent on by night in carriages, that they might proceed more comfortably in the cool of the night, and he himself was following after with his cavalry.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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