And when they had ridden up, Cyrus asked them first whether his men were all safe. And when they answered this in the affirmative, he asked how they had fared. And they narrated to him what they had accomplished and proudly told how gallantly they had behaved in every particular.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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