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[15] And as he reclined upon a mat of straw he asked this question:
Tell me, Gobryas, do you think you have more coverlets than each one of us?
I am perfectly sure, by Zeus, the other answered, that you have more coverlets and more couches, 1 and that your dwelling is much larger than mine; for you take heaven and earth for your dwelling, and you have as many couches as you can find resting-places on the ground, while you regard as your proper coverlets not wool that sheep produce, but whatever the mountains and plains bring forth.
I am perfectly sure, by Zeus, the other answered, that you have more coverlets and more couches, 1 and that your dwelling is much larger than mine; for you take heaven and earth for your dwelling, and you have as many couches as you can find resting-places on the ground, while you regard as your proper coverlets not wool that sheep produce, but whatever the mountains and plains bring forth.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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