Xenophon Cyropaedia 5.4.31

Walter Miller (Translator)

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[31] And by the gods, who see all things and hear all things, I swear to you, Cyrus, that it is not for anything wrong or base that I have said or done that I have suffered this affliction.
As he uttered these words he burst into tears over his lot and could say no more.

Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.

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Cyropaedia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol 5-6. Miller, Walter,editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.)

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Κύρου παιδεία Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.) — 5.4.31 focus

[31] καὶ ταῦτα, ἔφη, ὦ Κῦρε, ὄμνυμί σοι θεούς, οἳ καὶ ὁρῶσι πάντα καὶ ἀκούουσι πάντα, οὔτε ἄδικον οὔτε αἰσχρὸν οὐδὲν οὔτε εἰπὼν οὔτε ποιήσας ἔπαθον. καὶ ἅμα ταῦτα λέγων κατεδάκρυσε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τύχην καὶ οὐκέτι ἐδυνήθη πλείω εἰπεῖν.

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