Isocrates, To Philip, section 66

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Then again, Cyrus¹（that we may take account of the barbarians also）, not withstanding the fact that as a child he was exposed by his mother on the public highway² and was picked up by a Persian woman,³ so completely reversed his fortunes that he became master of all Asia.

1 Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, Isoc. 9.37.

2 See Isoc. 5.132 and Hdt. 1.108.

3 Hdt. 1.112 ff.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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