Xenophon Cyropaedia 8.3.26

Walter Miller (Translator)

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[26] Thereupon Cyrus is said to have asked the young man if he would take a kingdom for his horse.
No, answered he; I would not take a kingdom for him, but I would take the chance of laying up a store of gratitude with a brave man.

Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.

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Cyropaedia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol 5-6. Miller, Walter,editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.)

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Κύρου παιδεία Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.) — 8.3.26 focus

[26] ἔνθα δὴ λέγεται ὁ Κῦρος ἐρέσθαι τὸν νεανίσκον εἰ δέξαιτʼ ἂν βασιλείαν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἵππου. τὸν δʼ ἀποκρίνασθαι ὅτι βασιλείαν μὲν οὐκ ἂν δεξαίμην, χάριν δὲ ἀνδρὶ ἀγαθῷ καταθέσθαι δεξαίμην ἄν.

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