Well then, said he, do you think that these two nations would like to join us in an attack upon the Assyrian?
Yes, they answered, and right eagerly, if they could find a way to combine their forces with ours.
And what is to hinder such a union of forces? asked Cyrus.
The Assyrians, they answered, the same nation, through whose country you are now marching.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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