Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Walter Miller (Translator), 7.1.42

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[42]
You can, Cyrus replied, because we are witnesses that you are the only ones who stood your ground and were willing to fight.
Well, answered the Egyptians, granting that, what can we do consistently with honour to save our lives?
You could surrender your arms, Cyrus answered again, and become friends of those who choose to save you, when it is in their power to destroy 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.) — 7.1.42 focus

[42] ὁ δὲ Κῦρος πάλιν ἔλεγεν· ὅτι ἡμεῖς ὑμᾶς ὁρῶμεν μόνους καὶ μένοντας καὶ μάχεσθαι θέλοντας. ἀλλὰ τοὐντεῦθεν, ἔφασαν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι, τί καλὸν ἂν ποιοῦντες σωθείημεν; καὶ ὁ Κῦρος αὖ πρὸς τοῦτο εἶπεν· εἰ τῶν τε συμμαχομένων μηδένα προδόντες σωθείητε τά τε ὅπλα παραδόντες φίλοι τε γενόμενοι τοῖς αἱρουμένοις ὑμᾶς σῶσαι, ἐξὸν ἀπολέσαι.

Xenophon Cyropaedia 7.1.42

Walter Miller (Translator)

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