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Cyrus, although he saw this movement, did not any the more recede but led on just as before.
Do you observe, Chrysantas, where the wings are drawing off to form their angle with the centre? he asked, as he noticed at what a distance from the centre column on both sides they made their turning point, and how far they were pushing forward their wings in executing their flanking movement.
Indeed I do, answered Chrysantas, and I am surprised, too; for it strikes me that they are drawing their wings a long way off from their centre.
Aye, by Zeus, said Cyrus, and from ours, too.
Do you observe, Chrysantas, where the wings are drawing off to form their angle with the centre? he asked, as he noticed at what a distance from the centre column on both sides they made their turning point, and how far they were pushing forward their wings in executing their flanking movement.
Indeed I do, answered Chrysantas, and I am surprised, too; for it strikes me that they are drawing their wings a long way off from their centre.
Aye, by Zeus, said Cyrus, and from ours, too.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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