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39 The historian’s sole task is to tell the tale as it happened. This he cannot do as long as he is afraid of Artaxerxes when he is his physician or hopes to get a purple cufta, A Median garment with sleeves. a gold necklet, and a Nisaean horse as a reward for the eulogies in his work. Referring to Ctesias of Cnidus. He spent seventeen years at court and wrote a history of Persia. No Xenophon (a just historian), no Thucydides will do that. On the contrary, even if he personally hates certain people he will think the public interest far more binding, and regard truth as worth more than enmity, and if he has a friend he will nevertheless not spare him if he errs.