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Thus they went to sleep that evening. At 1 daybreak he made proclamation for all the Cadusians and the officers of the rest to assemble; and he addressed them as follows:
Friends and allies, that which has happened might happen to any man; for it is not at all strange, I think, for mortal man to err. Still it is worth our while to reap some benefit from this occurrence, the lesson never to detach from our main body a force weaker than the forces of the enemy.
Thus they went to sleep that evening. At 1 daybreak he made proclamation for all the Cadusians and the officers of the rest to assemble; and he addressed them as follows:
Friends and allies, that which has happened might happen to any man; for it is not at all strange, I think, for mortal man to err. Still it is worth our while to reap some benefit from this occurrence, the lesson never to detach from our main body a force weaker than the forces of the enemy.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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