Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Artaxerxes, Cyrus’s brother, called Mnemon,
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not only granted audience freely to those who wished to speak with him, but also bade his wife draw aside the curtains from her carriage so that those who desired might speak with her on the road.
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A poor man brought to him an apple of extraordinary size which he accepted with pleasure, and at the same time he remarked,
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By Mithras I swear it seems to me that this man would make a big city out of a small one if it were entrusted to his charge.
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Once in a precipitate retreat his baggage was plundered, and as he ate dry figs and barley-bread he exclaimed,
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What a pleasure is this which has never been mine before!
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