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[25]
You will please present him with me, then,¹ will you not, said Hystaspas, that so I may get the collection of proverbs?
Ah, but have you property enough to match the girl’s fortune? asked Cyrus.
Yes, by Zeus, he answered, and several times over.
And where is this property of yours? asked Cyrus.
Right there, said he, in your chair; for you are a friend of mine.
I am satisfied, said Gobryas; and at once stretching out his right hand he added: Give him to me, Cyrus; I will accept him.

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.) — 8.4.25 focus

[25] οὐκοῦν ἐμέ, ἔφη ὁ Ὑστάσπας, δώσεις, ἵνα καὶ τὰ συγγράμματα λάβω. ἦ καὶ ἔστι σοι, ἔφη ὁ Κῦρος, οὐσία ἀξία τῶν τῆς παιδός; νὴ Δίʼ, ἔφη, πολλαπλασίων μὲν οὖν χρημάτων. καὶ ποῦ, ἔφη ὁ Κῦρος, ἔστι σοι αὕτη ἡ οὐσία; ἐνταῦθα, ἔφη, ὅπουπερ καὶ σὺ κάθησαι φίλος ὢν ἐμοί. ἀρκεῖ μοι, ἔφη ὁ Γωβρύας· καὶ εὐθὺς ἐκτείνας τὴν δεξιάν, δίδου, ἔφη, ὦ Κῦρε· δέχομαι γάρ.

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1. Hystaspas receives the hand of Gobryas’s daughter

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