"And those who were subject to him, he treated with esteem and regard, as if they were his own children, while his subjects themselves respected Cyrus as their Father ... What other man but 'Cyrus', after having overturned an empire, ever died with the title of The Father from the people whom he had brought under his power? For it is plain fact that this is a name for one that bestows, rather than for one that takes away!"
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Xenophon, in The Cyropaedia : or, Institution of Cyrus, and the Hellenics, or Grecian history as translated by J. S Watson and Henry Dale (1855), p. 281
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Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great, also Cyrus II (c. 600 – 530 BC) was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the patron and deliverer of the Jews.
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