He put the question thus and they all voted aye. And so from that time even to this day, the Persians follow that practice, and no Persian gentleman would be seen going anywhere on foot, if he could help it.
Such were their discussions on this occasion.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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