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An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness!" "That is blasphemy, Araspes. Are the gods to be blamed because we misunderstand their words?" "Certainly: for if they wished to benefit us they would give us, with the words, the necessary penetration for discovering their meaning.
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness!" "That is blasphemy, Araspes. Are the gods to be blamed because we misunderstand their words?" "Certainly: for if they wished to benefit us they would give us, with the words, the necessary penetration for discovering their meaning.
Cyrus gave her to him immediately, saying, "I consider myself more obliged to you for asking her, than you are to me for giving her to you." As for the Susian lady, Cyrus had not yet seen her, but he called one of his most intimate and confidential friends to him, and requested him to take her under his charge. The name of this officer was Araspes.
If Araspes could see Sappho he would be obliged to confess that even Panthea had been outdone at last. Such a creature was never made before. Auramazda is an awful spendthrift; he might have made three beauties out of Sappho. And how charmingly it sounded when she said 'good-night' to us in Persian."
"Leave off this useless discussion," said Darius, "and tell us instead, Araspes, how it is that, though you congratulate every man on becoming a bridegroom, you yourself have so long submitted to be blamed by the priests, slighted at all entertainments and festivals, and abused by the women, only because you choose to live and die a bachelor?"
Xenophon's romantic tales. Panthea a Susian captive. Valuable spoil. Its division. Share of Cyrus. Panthea given to Cyrus. Araspes. Abradates. Account of Panthea's capture. Her great loveliness. Attempts at consolation. Panthea's renewed grief. Cyrus declines to see Panthea. His reasons. Araspes's self-confidence. Panthea's patience and gentleness. Araspes's kindness to Panthea.
"But don't you remember the legend of the Div, who took the beautiful form of a minstrel and appeared before king Kawus?" "Of course," cried Araspes. "Cyrus had this legend so often recited at the banquets, that I know it by heart. "Kai Kawus hearkened to the words of the disguised Div and went to Masenderan, and was beaten there by the Divs and deprived of his eyesight."
"There's no woman so perfect that her husband does not, at least once a day, repent that he ever took a wife. Be merry, old friend, and remember that it's all your own fault. If you thought a wife would make you happy, why did not you do as I have done? I am only twenty-two years old and have five stately wives and a troop of the most beautiful slaves in my house." Araspes smiled bitterly.
Take care what you say, and consider well what punishment awaits perjurers." "We know that well enough," said Araspes, "and yet we are ready to swear by Mithras, that we have not left Bartja or his garden one moment since we came back from hunting."
"One of you has remained a bachelor in defiance of all Persian customs; another has been frightened out of marrying by an oracle; Bartja has determined to be content with only one wife; and Darius looks like a Destur chanting the funeral-service, because his father has told him to make himself happy with the most beautiful and aristocratic girl in Persia!" "Zopyrus is right," cried Araspes.
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