And when he saw the lady sitting upon the 1 ground and the corpse lying there, he wept over his loss and said: Alas, O brave and faithful soul, hast thou then gone and left us? And with the words he clasped his hand, and the dead man’s hand came away in his grasp; for the wrist had been severed by a sabre in the hands of an Egyptian.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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