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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67704	Kyrou paideia, or, The institution and life of Cyrus the Great written by that famous philosopher and general, Xenophon of Athens, and from the original Greek made English, the first four books by Francis Digby ..., the four last by John Norris.	Xenophon.; Digby, Francis.; Norris, John, 1657-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing X10; ESTC R30212	245,110	427

or Young Men. Now they lead their Lives after this manner For ten years after the time of their Childhood is expired they lodge about the Palace partly for the Safeguard of the City and partly to make them vigilant and temperate because at this Age especially they seem most to stand in need of a strict Discipline and Governance In the day time they wait chiefly upon the Magistrates to be employed if any Concern for the Publick call for their Service and when occasion requires they all give their Attendance about the Palace Royal. Whensoever the King goes forth to hunt and that he does often every month he leads out with him half his Guards now all that attend upon him must have a Bow and Arrows with a Quiver a short Dagger or Cymitar in a Scabbard besides a light Target and two Javelins the one to dart at a distance and the other if need be to use at hand They are careful to keep up this kind of publick Hunting where the King in Person as in the Wars is their Leader who both hunts himself and takes care that others do so too upon this account because they look upon it to be the best Preparatory for and truest Resemblance of Military Discipline for it brings them to a Custom of rising early in the Morning it inures them to undergo Heat and Cold and exercises them with travelling on Foot and Running Besides they are obliged to shoot at and dart the Wild Beast wheresoever they meet him and many times it can't chuse but quicken and raise their Courage when they encounter some fierce and noble Prey for they must strike those that make at them and avoid those that eagerly assault them so that it is hard to find any one Action in War that is not represented or matched in Hunting Those that go forth to hunt have as is but fitting a larger Proportion allowed for their Dinner than the Children but in other Respects they fare alike Whilst they have Game they must not dine but if they are forced to tarry long for their Game or are otherwise willing to continue their Chase then they eat their Dinner for Supper and the next Day hunt till Supper-time again accounting those two days but for one because they spend only the Portion allotted for one now this course they take so to accustom themselves that in War if need require they may be able to do the same These Young Men if they take any thing in Hunting that they have for their Repast if nothing their Cresses But now if any man imagine they fare hard because they have nothing to eat with their Bread but Cresses and only Water to drink let him but consider how savory is a plain Cake or piece of Bread to one that is hungry and how delicious Water is to him that is thirsty As for the rest of the Guards that remain at home besides that they diligently practise themselves in other things which they learn'd whilst yet Children they exercise themselves in shooting and darting in which they are continually striving to excell one another They have also their publick Games and Contests and Rewards appointed for the Victors and look what Tribe abounds with the most understanding valiant and obedient Subjects not only their Governour for the time being but he also that instructed in their Childhood is highly magnified and honoured by the People These Young Men likewise that stay behind in the City if there be any occasion either for a Guard or to search after Malefactors or to apprehend Robbers or any thing else that requires Strength and Dispatch are always employ'd by the Civil Magistrate These are the Exercises of the Youth who after they have thus employ'd these ten Years are taken into the Number of Compleat Men and then for twenty five Years following the Course of Life they lead is this At first as the Young Men do they attend the chief Magistrates ready to be put upon Duty whensoever the Exigency of Publick Affairs calls for Men of approved Wisdom and Courage And if upon occasion they are summon'd to go out to Battel they that are under this Discipline go not out as before arm'd with Bows and Lances but with Weapons fit to grapple with at hand such are a Breast-plate about their Breasts in their left hand a Shield as the Persians are usually represented and in their right hand a short Sword or Cymitar these are they out of which they chuse all the Magistracy except only the Childrens Governours Now when they have compleated these five and twenty years they may be supposed to be somewhat upwards of Fifty from which time they commence Elders both in Name and Fact These Elders henceforward go no more out of their own Country to the Wars but remaining now at home are to determine all Controversies that shall arise both Publick and Private to give Judgment in matters of Life and Death to whom also belongs the Election of Magistrates and if any of the Young Men or those of maturer years neglect to discharge their Duty as by Law injoyned against all such Persons either the Presidents of their respective Tribes or any else that will bring their Presentments where upon hearing the whole matter the Elders discard them and he that is thus thrown off leads the residue of his Life in Infamy and Disgrace But now that the whole Persian Polity and Government may appear more plain and easie I shall recollect a little what I have delivered which I shall be able to comprise very briefly in regard of what has been already spoken The Persians then are reported to be in number about a hundred and twenty thousand and none of all these are by Law debarred from honourable Employments and Offices of State for all Persians in general are at liberty to send their Children to these publick Seminaries of Justice although they only are sent thither whose Parents are of Ability otherwise to breed them up at their ease and they that can't do that never send them Now they that in their Childhood have undergone the Discipline of these Publick Teachers may improve themselves afterwards among the young Men which Priviledge the Law denies to those that have not Likewise such of the Youth as have gone on constantly to perform what the Law requires may proceed yet higher in the Society of those of riper years and have equal share with them in Honours and Preferments But they that have never gone through this Institution in either Capacity either as young Men or Children are by no means admitted into Fellowship with them that are arrived at the perfect State of Manhood They also that among the full aged Men have in all Respects acquitted themselves unblameably are thereupon received into the number of the Elders so that such only are constituted Elders that have gone through all manner of honest and laudable Employments This is their Polity

first place he did Sacrifice to Vesta and then to Jupiter and some other Gods as the Magi thought fit When this was done he began to take other business in Hand And when he consider'd with himself what a Charge he had taken upon him who was to Govern such a vast Multitude of People and that he was to reside in such a great and Famous City which was as ill affected toward him as it could possibly be these things consider'd he thought he had great need of a Guard considering withall that Men were never so exposed to Violence as when they were eating or drinking bathing or Sleeping He made it his care to procure such as should be faithful to him in these Circumstances And he was of Opinion that no Man could ever be faithful and trusty who had a greater love for some other then for him whom he was to Guard He considered withall that those who had Children or agreeable Wives or any other indearments of affection were under a kind of Natural necessity of loving them best But seeing the Eunuchs were destitute of all these he thought they would have them in greatest esteem by whom they might raise their Fortunes be avenged of their Injuries and be graced with Honours And withall he thought that there was none that could oblige them by more Favours than himself Besides whereas Eunuchs are in great disesteem and contempt with other men for that very reason they want the protection of a Master For every one will think to take place of an Eunuch in all things unless he be restrained by the dread of some higher Power But now nothing hinders but that he that is faithful may take place of others tho' he be an Eunuch And whereas it might be objected that Eunuchs are much the weaker for being so Cyrus was of a different opinion observing that it was not so in other Creatures For mad unruly Horses when they are cut cease indeed to bite People and abate something of their frolicksomeness but however they are still fit for the services of War And so Bulls when they are cut remit something of their Rage and untractableness but yet they retain their strength to Labour And in like manner Doggs when they are cut are as good for keeping the House or for hunting as ever they were So Men are not indeed altogether so brisk after they are quit of the Heat of Concupiscence but yet they are never the more●…negligent in performing the business or unfit to ride or ●…hrow Darts or less ambitious of Honour and Praise as may appear from that Emulation which they discover both in Wars and hunting And as for their fidelity they have given great proofs of it when their Masters have been kill'd For none have shewn themselves more faithful in their Masters Calamities then Eunuchs have done And if they should have some smal disadvantage in point of bodily strength yet Arms will make the weak equal to the strong in War These things consider'd he chose all his Life-Guard his very Porters not excepted from among the Eunuchs But considering withall that this Guard would not be enough to defend him against the Multitude of those that were disaffected he look't out for some others whom he thought most faithful to Guard his Palace And because he knew that the Persians who were left at home lived very hardly by reason of their poverty and indured a great deal of Labour partly because of the roughness of the place and partly because they were forc'd to Work with their own hands these he thought would be very ready to embrace such a way of life with him He chose therefore among them ten thousand spear-men who should keep Ward round about the Palace night and day whenever he was within But if he was gone abroad any whither they were to Guard him on each side as he went And because he thought that all Babylon stood in need of a Garrison which might be able to defend it whether he himself was nigh at hand or afar off he placed a Garrison there and order'd the Babylonians to pay a set stipend toward the maintaining it because he would keep them low that so they might be the more tractable And this is the state both of the Kings personal and of the City Guard to this day Moreover casting with himself how he might maintain the Empire which he had and gain more he consider'd that these Tributary-men did not so far exceed his other Subjects in goodness as they came short of them in number and therefore he thought best to retain those stout men with him by whose assistance and the favour of Heaven he had got himself this degree of Power and to take care that they might not intermit their exercise in Arms. And that this might not seem a mere arbitrary Imposition upon them but that they themselves might be convinced that this was the best course and consequently might persevere in the exercise of Martial Vertue he summon'd together the Peers of Persia and as many others as he thought worthy to share in the Labour and the Profit And when they were convened he made this Oration to them We are much indebted to the Gods My Friends and Fellow-Souldiers that they have granted us the possession of those things whereof we thought our selves worthy We are now in the possession of a large and rich Country and we have those that will manure it for our maintenance We have Houses and those too well furnished Neither is there any reason why any of you should scruple at the possession of these things for 't is an eternal Law among all Men that when a City is taken in War the Bodies and Fortunes of those that are in the City shall be in the disposal of the Conquerour And therefore you have a jnst Title to what you possess but if you permit the Enemy to retain any thing that is wholly to be imputed to your courtesy But now concerning what is to be done next this is my opinion If we turn to the lazy and Voluptuous life of poor-spirited Men who think Labour the most miserable thing in the World and idleness the greatest pleasure we shall soon become unprofitable to our selves and lose what now we have For 't is not enough that we were once Valiant-Men to make us continue so unless by diligence and industry we still keep our selves in ure For as other arts dwindle away through neglect and as our Bodies though in never so good Health yet grow out of order for want of Exercise So Temperance Continence and Fortitude by a little intermission will by degrees degenerate into Debauchery We must not therefore be idle and indulge our Sloth nor rush greedily upon that which is sweet at present For I think it a great Atchievment to gain a Kingdom but I think it a much greater to keep it For to gain it often times nothing more is required then to