When his life was far spent amid such achievements 1 and Cyrus was now a very old man, he came back for the seventh time in his reign to Persia . His father and his mother were in the course of nature long since dead; so Cyrus performed the customary sacrifice and led the Persians in their national dance and distributed presents among them all, as had been his custom.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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