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The account of H., that the victory of Cyrus was rendered easy by treachery, is far more like the real facts as told in the Annalistic Tablet (cf. App. IV, § 1) than the long and picturesque version of Nicolas Damascenus (fr. 66; F. H. G. iii. 405-6, probably from Ctesias); cf. App. IV, § 4.


θεοβλαβής. H., as a pious Greek, believes ‘Quem deus vult perdere prius dementat’.

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