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Excerpt from History of Herodotus, Vol. 2 of 4: A New English Version, Edited With Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, From the Most Recent Sources of Information
What? They say now that I drink too much wine, and so have lost my senses, and am gone out of my mind! Then their former speeches about me were untrue. For once, when the Persians were sitting with him, and Crmsus was by, he had asked them, What sort of man they thought him compared to his father Cyrus Hereon they had answered, That he surpassed his father, for he was lord of all that his father ever ruled, and further had made himself master of Egypt, and the sea. Then Crmsus, who was standing near, and misliked the comparison, spoke thus to Cambyses: In my judgment, 0 son of Cyrus, thou art not equal to thy father, for thou hast not yet left behind thee such a son as he. Cambyses was delighted when he heard this reply, and praised the judgment of Crcesus.
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