Cyrus' friends
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friends · friends who eagerly desired to entrust to him · his friends · my friends · those of his friends who were most able to think and to co-operate
in the texts
Anabasis
The network of devoted supporters, co-workers, companions, and beneficiaries surrounding Cyrus.
Cyrus enjoyed this, and therefore wants you also to take a taste of it.
so he sends it to you, and asks you to drink it up today in company with the friends you love best.
Again, so surely as a man performed with credit any service that he assigned him, Cyrus never let his zeal go unrewarded.
Cyropaedia
Cyrus’ trusted companions and advisers, especially those capable of planning and persuading.
Now, if the allies we have gained would only stay on with us, we should be able to accomplish much more both by force, when occasion calls for it, and by persuasion, when that is needed;
After this Cyaxares attended to his dinner, while Cyrus collected those of his friends who were most able to think and to co-operate with him when occasion demanded, and addressed them as follows:
Do not, however, aim at displaying to us the arguments that you will address to each one of them, but set to work with the feeling that those who are persuaded by any one of you will show what they are by what they do.