Xenophon Cyropaedia 4.5.52

Walter Miller (Translator)

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[52]
They laughed and said that they would have to choose women for him.
Choose women then, said he, and whatever else you please. And when you have made your choice for him, then do you Hyrcanians do all you can to see that all those who volunteered to follow me have no cause to complain.

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.) — 4.5.52 focus

[52] καὶ οἳ γελάσαντες εἶπον ὅτι γυναῖκας ἐξαιρετέον εἴη. γυναῖκάς τε τοίνυν ἐξαιρεῖτε, ἔφη, καὶ ἄλλο ὅ τι ἂν δοκῇ ὑμῖν. ἐπειδὰν δʼ ἐκείνῳ ἐξέλητε, τοὺς ἐμοί, ὦ Ὑρκάνιοι, ἐθελουσίους τούτους ἐπισπομένους πάντας ἀμέμπτους ποιεῖτε εἰς δύναμιν.

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