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τῇ δʼ ὑστεραίᾳ ἀναλαβὼν ὁ Κῦρος τὸν Τιγράνην καὶ τῶν Μήδων ἱππέων τοὺς κρατίστους καὶ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ φίλων ὁπόσους καιρὸς ἐδόκει εἶναι, περιελαύνων τὴν χώραν κατεθεᾶτο, σκοπῶν ποῦ τειχίσειε φρούριον. καὶ ἐπʼ ἄκρον τι ἐλθὼν ἐπηρώτα τὸν Τιγράνην ποῖα εἴη τῶν ὀρέων ὁπόθεν οἱ Χαλδαῖοι καταθέοντες λῄζονται. καὶ ὁ Τιγράνης ἐδείκνυεν. ὁ δὲ πάλιν ἤρετο· νῦν δὲ ταῦτα τὰ ὄρη ἔρημά ἐστιν; οὐ μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη, ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ σκοποὶ εἰσὶν ἐκείνων οἳ σημαίνουσι τοῖς ἄλλοις ὅ τι ἂν ὁρῶσι. τί οὖν, ἔφη, ποιοῦσιν, ἐπὴν αἴσθωνται; βοηθοῦσιν, ἔφη, ἐπὶ τὰ ἄκρα, ὡς ἂν ἕκαστος δύνηται.

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.) — 3.2.1 focus

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On the morrow Cyrus took with him Tigranes,¹ the best of the Median horsemen, and as many of his own friends as he thought proper, and rode around to inspect the country with a view to finding a place in which to build a fort. And when he had come to a certain eminence he asked Tigranes which were the mountains from which the Chaldaeans were accustomed to descend to make forays into the country. And Tigranes pointed them out. And again he asked: And are these mountains now unoccupied?
No, by Zeus, said he; but they always have scouts up there who signal to the rest whatever they see.
Then said he, what do they do, when they receive the signals?
They run out to the heights to help, said he, each as best he can.

Xenophon Cyropaedia 3.2.1

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