Monday, March 06, 2023
Freedom
Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.3 (Cyrus to the Greek soldiers; tr. H.G. Dakyns):
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Liberty—it is a thing which, be well assured, I would choose in preference to all my other possessions, multiplied many times.Maurice W. Mather and Joseph William Hewitt ad loc.:
εὖ γὰρ ἴστε ὅτι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἑλοίμην ἂν ἀντὶ ὧν ἔχω πάντων καὶ ἄλλων πολλαπλασίων.
According to the Persian notion, Cyrus himself was the slave of the king [his brother Artaxerxes II] ... who alone, of all the Persians, was free.
