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[25] Then he began as follows:
Tell me, then, said he,
does the Assyrian king believe that you are the only ones who are hostile to him, or do you know of any one else who is his enemy?
Yes, by Zeus, said the Hyrcanian; the Cadusians, 1 a large and powerful nation, are most bitter enemies of his; and so are our neighbours, the Sacians, for they have suffered very severely at his hands; for he attempted to subjugate them just as he did us.
Yes, by Zeus, said the Hyrcanian; the Cadusians, 1 a large and powerful nation, are most bitter enemies of his; and so are our neighbours, the Sacians, for they have suffered very severely at his hands; for he attempted to subjugate them just as he did us.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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