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[3] And when he saw them he was astonished and turning to Panthea, he asked:
Tell me, wife, you did not break your own jewels to pieces, did you, to have this armour made for me?
No, by Zeus, answered Panthea, at any rate, not my most precious jewel; for you, if you appear to others as you seem to me, shall be my noblest jewel.
With these words, she began to put the armour on him, and though she tried to conceal them, the tears stole down her cheeks.
No, by Zeus, answered Panthea, at any rate, not my most precious jewel; for you, if you appear to others as you seem to me, shall be my noblest jewel.
With these words, she began to put the armour on him, and though she tried to conceal them, the tears stole down her cheeks.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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