Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Walter Miller (Translator), 6.1.39

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[39] If, then, said the other, under pretence¹ that you were fleeing from me you would go over into the enemy’s country, I believe they would trust you.
Aye, by Zeus, said Araspas, and I know that even with my friends I could start the story that I was running away from you.

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.) — 6.1.39 focus

[39] εἰ τοίνυν, ἔφη, προσποιησάμενος ἐμὲ φεύγειν ἐθέλοις εἰς τοὺς πολεμίους ἐλθεῖν, οἴομαι ἄν σε πιστευθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων. ἔγωγε ναὶ μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη ὁ Ἀράσπας, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων οἶδα ὅτι ὡς σὲ πεφευγὼς λόγον ἂν παρἔχοιμι.

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1. Cyrus sends him as a spy

Xenophon Cyropaedia 6.1.39

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