Xenophon Cyropaedia 5.1.24

ed. Edgar Carew Marchant

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[24] ὁ μὲν οὕτως εἶπε.
πρῶτος δʼ ὁ φήσας ποτὲ συγγενὴς τοῦ Κύρου εἶναι εἶπεν· ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ μέν, ἔφη, ὦ βασιλεῦ· βασιλεὺς γὰρ ἔμοιγε δοκεῖς σὺ φύσει πεφυκέναι οὐδὲν ἧττον ἢ ὁ ἐν τῷ σμήνει φυόμενος τῶν μελιττῶν ἡγεμών· ἐκείνῳ τε γὰρ αἱ μέλιτται ἑκοῦσαι μὲν πείθονται, ὅπου δʼ ἂν μένῃ, οὐδεμία ἐντεῦθεν ἀπέρχεται· ἐὰν δέ ποι ἐξίῃ, οὐδεμία αὐτοῦ ἀπολείπεται· οὕτω δεινός τις ἔρως αὐταῖς τοῦ ἄρχεσθαι ὑπʼ ἐκείνου ἐγγίγνεται.

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.) — 5.1.24 focus

[24]
Thus he spoke. And the first one to reply was¹ the man who had once upon a time claimed to be a kinsman of Cyrus. For my part, O my king, said he— for to me you seem to be a born king no less than is the sovereign of the bees in a hive. For as the bees always willingly obey the queen-bee and not one of them deserts the place where she stays; and as not one fails to follow her if she goes anywhere else—so marvellous a yearning to be ruled by her is innate to them;

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