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[50]
Thus he spoke, and they made answer: Well, Cyrus, we have no men whom we could mount upon these horses; and if we had, we should not choose to make any other disposition of them, since this is what you desire. So now, they added, take them and do as you think best.

Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.

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Cyropaedia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol 5-6. Miller, Walter,editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.)

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Κύρου παιδεία Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.) — 4.5.50 focus

[50] ὁ μὲν οὕτως ἔλεξεν· οἱ δὲ ἀπεκρίναντο· ἀλλʼ ἡμεῖς μέν, ὦ Κῦρε, οὔτʼ ἄνδρας ἔχομεν οὓς ἀναβιβάσαιμεν ἂν ἐπὶ τούτους τοὺς ἵππους, οὔτʼ εἰ εἴχομεν, σοῦ ταῦτα βουλομένου ἄλλο ἂν ἀντὶ τούτων ᾑρούμεθα. καὶ νῦν, ἔφασαν, τούτους λαβὼν ποίει ὅπως ἄριστόν σοι δοκεῖ εἶναι.

Xenophon Cyropaedia 4.5.50

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