Friendship and reciprocity
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
friends · assist one's friends · benefits · friend · give help in return · good-will · my friends · returning like for like
in the texts
Anabasis
Reciprocal bond of loyalty, benefit, cooperation, honor, and mutual service between Cyrus and his friends.
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.
and surely he of all men distributed gifts most generously among his friends, with an eye to the tastes of each one and to whatever particular need he noted in each case.
Cyropaedia
Mutual affection, loyalty, aid, and grateful return among comrades, kin, allies, and gods.
And for one’s friends also, you said, one ought always to show one’s regard in precisely the same way.
For, as it is, the enemy are coming, aggressors in wrong, and our friends are calling us to their assistance.
Thus Cyrus passed most of his time, contriving some pleasure and good for all, but responsible for nothing unpleasant to any one.