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A67715
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Cyrus le Grand the entire story Done into English by a person of quality and dedicated to the late King; Anabasis. English.
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Xenophon.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.
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1654
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Wing X3B; ESTC R221067
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After this they for their parts went to the division of the booty laughing heartily at this mention of riding and horsemanship But Cyrus having sent for the Centurions commaunded them to take the horses togither with their harnoise and keepers to take them I say by tale equall in number to the souldiers as they fell out by lot unto them according to their bands and companies He caused also proclamation to bee made that if there were any slave in the armie of the Assyrians Syrians or Arabians or out of Media Bactriana Caria Cilicia and Greece or from other countries whatsoever by force brought thither he should shew himselfe Which proclamation being heard many willingly made their appearance Then Cyrus chose out of them those that were * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 best favoured and said unto them That being now become free they were to beare armes and weapons such as hee would put into their hands and for other necessaries he promised to take order that they should have sufficient So he brought them directly to the Centurions unto whom he recommended them with commaundement to deliver unto them light bucklers and * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or naked slender swords that having the same about them they might follow with the horses and to receive for them allowance of victuals and other necessaries as well as for his owne countrimen the Persians But the said Centurions with their cuiraces and launces to be alwaies on horsebacke wherein himselfe gave the first example Also that every one of them should set over the footmen of the Peeres another Captain in stead of himselfe so he were of the ranke of the Peeres aforesaid CHAP. XIII How Gobryas yeelded himselfe unto Cyrus and related to him the disasterous calamitie of his sonne and required revenge for his death upon the King of Assyria which Cyrus promised to doe WHILES they were busied about these affaires Gobryas the Assyrian an aged man shewed himselfe on horsebacke with a brave retinue of his men of Armes And all these had bard horses furnished with armes and other equipage accordingly Now those * or Sergeants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 officers whose commission it was to receive the aforesaid armes and weapons commaunded him and his companie to deliver up unto them their launces that they might burne them as they did the rest But Gobryas said that hee was desirous to see Cyrus first Whereupon the said officers leaving all his other Horsemen behind brought Gobryas in person before Cyrus who when he saw Cyrus spake thus unto him My Lord I am by birth an Assyrian A strong Castle I hold and have the soveraine rule of a large territory With a thousand horse I served the Assyrian King whom I friended loyally no man more Now sithence his hap hath beene good Prince as he was to be slaine by you and seeing his sonne my most mortall enemie succeedeth him in the Empire I am come unto you humbly kneeling and falling downe prostrate at your feet And here I yeeld and submit my selfe unto you as your vassall ready to doe you service beseeching you to revenge my wrongs and as much as lyeth in me I adopt you for my sonne as having no issue male of mine owne body begotten For the onely sonne and heire that I had my Lord who though I say it was a gallant young Gentleman and vertuous withall one who loved and honoured mee so as any child might doe and by that dutifull honour make me his father a most happie man him this Prince who now doth reigne when as the late King his father had sent for him intending to bestow upon my said sonne his owne daughter in marriage and verily when I sent him from mee I carried my head aloft as one who looked to see my sonne another day affied to a Kings daughter him I say the King that now is permitted to hunt and chace the best hee could as counting himselfe a better horseman than he was by many degrees So hee hunted with him as with his very friend And when there was a Beare rowzed insight and both of them followed the Game the Prince who now reigneth flung his dart from him and as ill lucke was missed But that sonne of mine alas the while launced likewise and in an ill houre ywis and unseasonably hit his marke and overthrew the Beare Whereat for the present verily the other vexed though he was kept in his envie Againe when upon the presenting of a Lion which encountred them hee failed the second time which was as I thinke no great mervaile my sonne likewise as before hapned to kill the Lion outright and thereupon said Certes twice now togither have I darted and both times strucken and laid the beasts along Then verily at that word the wicked wight could no longer dissemble and conteine his envie but catching a Iavelin out of one of his followers hands ranne him into the brest and so bereft my liefe and onely sonne of his life Thus I poore wretch in stead of a * Bridegroom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spouse brought away a dead Corps and aged as I was enterred my best and deerest beloved sonne in the very flowre of his yeeres even when the Downe of his beard began to bud forth But the murderer as if he had slaine some mortall enemie neither shewed at any time one token of repentance nor yet for this wicked act of his vouchsafed the dead now under ground any honour at all His father verily I must needs say rued my wofull case and openly shewed that he had a fellow-feeling of my calamitie And therefore had he lived still I should never have come to you for to worke him any woe For hee was my singular good Lord and many favours there passed from him to me ward and I againe was his liege man and a faithfull servitour But seeing the Kingdome is now devolved upon the slayer of my sonne surely neither can I ever be well minded unto him nor can he I wore well thinke that ever I will be his friend For well hee knoweth how my heart standeth affected to him ward and that as heretofore I lived merrily so now despoyled of my sonne I lead mine old age in sorrow and heavinesse If it will please you therefore to enterteine mee so as that I may conceive some hope by your meanes to be revenged in any measure for my deere sonnes death then shall I thinke my selfe to waxe young againe and neither seeme to live with dishonour nor to die in dolour When Gobryas had thus said Cyrus made answere in this manner If it may appeare my Gobryas that you thinke in heart as you have spoken with your lips I both receive you graciously as an humble suppliant and also promise with the helpe of God to punish the murderer accordingly But tell me now quoth he In case we doe thus much for you and withall suffer you to be