Next he divided also among his own soldiers 1 the spoil that he had obtained at Sardis . To the generals and to his own aides-de-camp he gave the choicest portions—to each, according to his merit—and then distributed the rest; and in assigning to the generals their proper portions he left it to their discretion to distribute it as he had distributed to them.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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