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Ἀρταξέρξης

Ἀρταξέρξης Plutarch
12.1 When Cyrus was now dead, Artasyras, the king’s Eye,A confidential officer of high rank, a Superintendent of the Realm. chanced to pass by on horseback, and recognizing the eunuchs as they lamented, he asked the trustiest of them, Who is this man, Pariscas, by whom thou sittest mourning? And Pariscas answered: O Artasyras, dost thou not see Cyrus dead? Astonished at this, then, Artasyras bade the eunuch be of good courage and guard the dead body,
12.2 but he himself went in hot haste to Artaxerxes (who had already given up his cause for lost, and besides was physically in a wretched plight from thirst and from his wound), and joyfully told him that with his own eyes he had seen Cyrus dead. At first the king promptly set out to go in person to the place, and ordered Artasyras to conduct him thither; but since there was much talk about the Greeks, and it was feared that they were pursuing and conquering and making themselves masters everywhere, he decided to send a larger company to see where Cyrus lay. So thirty men were sent, with torches.

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