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And if we become your friends, they asked on hearing that, how will you see fit to deal with us?
I will do you favours and expect favours from you, answered Cyrus.
What sort of favours? asked the Egyptians in turn.
As long as the war continues, Cyrus made 1 answer to this, I would give you larger pay than you were now receiving; and when peace is made, to those of you who care to stay with me I will give lands and cities and wives and servants.
And if we become your friends, they asked on hearing that, how will you see fit to deal with us?
I will do you favours and expect favours from you, answered Cyrus.
What sort of favours? asked the Egyptians in turn.
As long as the war continues, Cyrus made 1 answer to this, I would give you larger pay than you were now receiving; and when peace is made, to those of you who care to stay with me I will give lands and cities and wives and servants.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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