At hearing these words Cyrus wondered at his good spirits, and after that he always used to take Croesus with him wherever he went, whether, as may well have been, because he thought Croesus was of some service to him, or whether he considered that this was the safer course.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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