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and so why should I not be justly accounted blessed and enjoy an immortality of fame?
But I must also declare my will about the disposition 1 of my throne, that the succession may not become a matter of dispute and cause you trouble. Now, I love you both alike, my sons; but precedence in counsel and leadership in everything that may be thought expedient, that I commit to the first born, who naturally has a wider experience.
But I must also declare my will about the disposition 1 of my throne, that the succession may not become a matter of dispute and cause you trouble. Now, I love you both alike, my sons; but precedence in counsel and leadership in everything that may be thought expedient, that I commit to the first born, who naturally has a wider experience.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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