Deliver this to him and whatever he asks 1 you in regard to these matters, answer him in keeping with what is written. And you can do this with perfect truth, for my instructions to you in regard to the Persians correspond exactly with what is written in my letter.
Thus he spoke to him and giving him the letter sent him away, adding the injunction that he should make haste as one who knows that it is important to be back again promptly.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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