And when, as he proceeded, he came in sight of the city of Babylon and it seemed to him that the road which he was following led close by the walls, he called Gobryas and Gadatas to him and asked if there were not another road, so that they need not march right by the wall.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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