Cyrus next appointed officers to have charge of 1 the various departments; for example, tax-collectors, paymasters, boards of public works, keepers of his estates, and stewards of his commissary department. He appointed also as superintendents of his horses and hounds those who he thought would keep these creatures in a condition most efficient for his use.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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