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[41]
ἐπεὶ δʼ ἦλθον οἴκαδε, ἔλεγον τοῦ Κύρου ὁ μέν τις τὴν σοφίαν, ὁ δὲ τὴν καρτερίαν, ὁ δὲ τὴν πρᾳότητα, ὁ δέ τις καὶ τὸ κάλλος καὶ τὸ μέγεθος. ἔνθα δὴ ὁ Τιγράνης ἐπήρετο τὴν γυναῖκα· ἦ καὶ σοί, ἔφη, ὦ Ἀρμενία, καλὸς ἐδόκει ὁ Κῦρος εἶναι; ἀλλὰ μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη, οὐκ ἐκεῖνον ἐθεώμην. ἀλλὰ τίνα μήν; ἔφη ὁ Τιγράνης. τὸν εἰπόντα νὴ Δία ὡς τῆς αὑτοῦ ψυχῆς ἂν πρίαιτο ὥστε μή με δουλεύειν. τότε μὲν δὴ ὥσπερ εἰκὸς ἐκ τοιούτων ἀνεπαύοντο σὺν ἀλλήλοις.

Cyropaedia. Xenophon. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Oxford. 1910.

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

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Cyropaedia Perseus (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol 5-6. Miller, Walter,editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.) — 3.1.41 focus

[41]
And when they got home they talked, one of¹ Cyrus’s wisdom, another of his strength, another of his gentleness, and still another of his beauty and his commanding presence.
Then Tigranes asked his wife: Tell me, my Armenian princess, said he, did you, too, think Cyrus handsome?
Why, by Zeus, said she, I did not look at him.
At whom, then? asked Tigranes.
At him, by Zeus, who said that he would give his life to keep me from servitude.
Then as might be expected after such experiences, they went to rest together.

Xenophon Cyropaedia 3.1.41

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