Cyropædia; Or, The Institution of CyrusJ. Swan, 1803 - 367 pages |
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able Abradatas abundance advantage affairs alike-honoured allies amongst appear Araspes Armenian arms army Artabazus asked Assyrian Astyages attend Babylon beasts body boys brave Cadusians Cambyses Carians Chaldeans chariots Chrysantas commanders corselets Croesus Cyaxares Cyrus Cyrus's desire discourse endeavour enemy enemy's engage eunuch father foot force fore fortress friends Gadatas gave give Gobrias gods grandfather greatest guard hand heard hearing honour horse horsemen hunt Hyrcanians Hystaspes javelin Jove Julius Cæsar king labour likewise Lydians manner matters means meat Medes mind multitude noble obedience observed occasion opinion ourselves Panthea Persians person phalanx Phrygia pleased pleasure possession practise present proper ready receive reckon religion respect rest Sacian satraps sent servants soldiers soon sort spoke stand supper Susian taken tell tent ther things thought thousand tion took treasures Tygranes Xenophon
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Page 14 - Thus, the proposition, that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles...
Page 266 - Abradatas turning about, and seeing her, said: ' Take courage, Panthea! Fare you happily and well; and now go your ways.
Page 265 - I think that we both lie under great obligations to Cyrus that, when I was a captive and chosen out for himself, he thought fit to treat me neither as a slave nor indeed as a woman of mean account, but he took and kept me for you as if I were his brother's wife. Besides when Araspes who was my guard went away from him, I promised him that if he would allow me to send for you, you would come to him, and approve yourself a much better and more faithful friend than Araspes.
Page 285 - Egyptians' compact body. His wife is now said to have taken up his dead body, to have placed it in the carriage that she herself was conveyed in, and to have brought it hither, to some place...
Page 265 - He wondered when he saw them, and inquired thus of Panthea : ' And have you made me these arms, woman, by destroying your own ornaments ? ' ' No, by Jove ! ' said Panthea, ' not what is the most valuable of them ; for it is you, if you appear to others to be what I think you, that will be my- greatest ornament.
Page 286 - Gobryas to take with them all the rich ornaments proper for a friend and an excellent man deceased, and to follow after him; and whoever had herds of cattle with him, he ordered them to take both oxen, and horses, and sheep in good number, and to bring them away to the place where, by inquiry, they should find him to be, that he might sacrifice these to Abradatus.
Page 287 - The nurse, after having repeatedly begged her not to do this, and meeting with no success, but observing her to grow angry, sat herself down, breaking out into tears. She, being before-hand provided with a sword, killed herself, and, laying her head down on her husband's breast, she died. The nurse set up a lamentable cry, and covered them both as Panthea had directed. " Cyrus, as soon as he was informed of what the woman had done, being struck with it, went to help her if he could. The servants...
Page 286 - Cyrus, shedding tears for some time in silence, then spoke: 'He has died, woman, the noblest death; for he has died victorious! Do you adorn him with these things that I furnish you with.' (Gobryas and Gadatas were then come up, and had brought rich ornaments in great abundance with them.) 'Then...
Page 294 - Babylonians drank and revelled the whole night; upoiv that occasion, as soon as it grew dark, took a number of men with him, and opened the ditches into the river. When this was done, the water run off in the night by the ditches, and the passage of the river through the city became passable.
Page 126 - I would ransom her at the expense of my life." "Take then your own to yourself...