Now a part of the Medes were already bringing 1 in the wagons which had been hurried forward and which they had overtaken and turned back packed full of what an army needs; others were bringing in the carriages that conveyed the most high-born women, not only wedded wives but also concubines, who on account of their beauty had been brought along; these also they captured and brought in.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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