Book 1
3.6
Well then, my boy, Astyages replied to this, if that is your judgment, at least regale yourself with meat, that you may go back home a strong young man. And as he said this, he placed before him an abundance of meat of both wild and domestic animals.And when Cyrus saw that there was a great quantity of meat, he said: And do you really mean to give me all this meat, grandfather, to dispose of as I please? Yes, by Zeus, said he, I do.
3.7
Thereupon Cyrus took some of the meat and proceeded to distribute it among his grandfather’s servants, saying to them in turn: I give this to you, because you take so much pains to teach me to ride; to you, because you gave me a spear, for at present this is all I have to give; to you, because you serve my grandfather so well; and to you, because you are respectful to my mother. He kept on thus, while he was distributing all the meat that he had received.
