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Gobryas returned with the Assyrian king’s reply, and when Cyrus heard it he drew off his army; then summoning Gobryas he said to him: Tell me, you were saying, were you not, that you thought that the prince who was castrated by the Assyrian would be on our side?
Why, of course; he replied, I feel perfectly sure of it; for he and I have often talked together freely.
Gobryas returned with the Assyrian king’s reply, and when Cyrus heard it he drew off his army; then summoning Gobryas he said to him: Tell me, you were saying, were you not, that you thought that the prince who was castrated by the Assyrian would be on our side?
Why, of course; he replied, I feel perfectly sure of it; for he and I have often talked together freely.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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