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Now tell me this, said Cyrus, in regard to the fort which stands upon the frontier of the country and which you say was built to serve as a base of operations against the Hyrcanians and the Sacians and an outwork to protect this country in time of war—do you think that the eunuch, if he went there with his army, would be admitted by the commandant?
Yes; certainly he would, said Gobryas, if he came to him as unsuspected as he now is.
Now tell me this, said Cyrus, in regard to the fort which stands upon the frontier of the country and which you say was built to serve as a base of operations against the Hyrcanians and the Sacians and an outwork to protect this country in time of war—do you think that the eunuch, if he went there with his army, would be admitted by the commandant?
Yes; certainly he would, said Gobryas, if he came to him as unsuspected as he now is.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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