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ὁ δὲ Κῦρος πρὸς ταῦτα εἶπεν· ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ σοὶ μὲν καὶ τότε ὑπεσχόμην ἀψευδοῦντός σου τιμωρήσειν εἰς δύναμιν· νῦν δὲ ὅτε ἀληθεύοντά σε ὁρῶ, ἤδη ὀφείλω τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν, καὶ ταύτῃ ὑπισχνοῦμαι τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα σὺν θεοῖς ποιήσειν. καὶ τὰ μὲν χρήματα ταῦτα, ἔφη, ἐγὼ μὲν δέχομαι, δίδωμι δʼ αὐτὰ τῇ παιδὶ ταύτῃ κἀκείνῳ ὃς ἂν γήμῃ αὐτήν. ἓν δὲ δῶρον ἄπειμι ἔχων παρὰ σοῦ ἀνθʼ οὗ οὐδʼ ἂν τὰ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι, εἰ ἐκεῖ πλεῖστά ἐστιν, οὐδὲ τὰ πανταχοῦ ἀντὶ τούτου οὗ σύ μοι δεδώρησαι ἥδιον ἂν ἔχων ἀπέλθοιμι.

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.) — 5.2.8 focus

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Well said Cyrus in reply to this, I promised¹ you even then that, assuming that you did not speak me false, I should do all in my power to avenge you; and now, when I see that you are truthful, my promise is already due; and I promise her likewise that with heaven’s help I will fulfil my promise to the letter.
Now as to these treasures, said he, I accept them, but I give them again to your daughter here and the man who shall marry her. But one gift of yours will I take as I leave you, in place of which not even all the wealth of Babylon (and that is enormous)—no, not even all the wealth of all the world would send me away more happy than with this gift from you.

Xenophon Cyropaedia 5.2.8

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