Kitap 6
1.37
Aye, Cyrus, said Araspas, interrupting him, you are in this, just as in everything else, gentle and forgiving of human errors. Other men make me ready to sink with my shame; for ever since the report of my fall got out, my enemies have been exulting over me, while my friends come to me and advise me to keep out of the way, for fear that you punish me for committing so great a wrong.
1.38
Let me tell you then, Araspas, said Cyrus, that by reason of this very report which people have heard in regard to you, you are in a position to do me a very great favour and to be of great assistance to our allies. Would that some occasion might arise, answered Araspas, in which I could be of service to you.
1.39
If, then, said the other, under pretenceCyrus sends him as a spy that you were fleeing from me you would go over into the enemy’s country, I believe they would trust you. Aye, by Zeus, said Araspas, and I know that even with my friends I could start the story that I was running away from you.
1.40
Then you would return to us, said he, with full information about the enemy’s condition and plans. And I suppose that because of their trusting you they would make you a participant in their discussions and counsels, so that not a single thing that we wish to know would be hidden from you. Depend upon it, said he, I will start at once; and one of the circumstances that will gain my story credence will be the appearance that I have run away because I was likely to be punished by you.
