lth of the state. He, I hold, has won the crown
of happiness who has had the skill to gain wealth by the paths of
righteousness and use it for all that is honourable and fair."

[24] That was the doctrine Cyrus preached, and all men could see that
his practice matched his words.

Moreover, he observed that the majority of mankind, if they live in good
health for long, will only lay by such stores and requisites as may be
used by a healthy man, and hardly care at all to have appliances at hand
in case of sickness. But Cyrus was at the pains to provide these; he
encouraged the ablest physicians of the day by his liberal payments, and
if ever they recommended an instrument or a drug or a special kind of
food or drink, he never failed to procure it and have it stored in the
palace.

[25] And whenever any one fell sick among those who had peculiar claims
on his attentions, he would visit them and bring them all they needed,
and he showed especial gratitude to the doctors if they cured their
patients by the help of his own stores. [26] These measures, and others
like them, he adopted to win the first place in the hearts of those
whose friendship he desired. Moreover, the contests he proclaimed and
the prizes he offered to awaken ambition and desire for gallant deeds
all redounded to his own glory as a man who had the pursuit of nobleness
at heart, while they bred strife and bitter rivalry among the champions
themselves. [27] Further, he laid it down that in every matter needing
arbitration, whether it were a suit-at-law or a trial of skill, the
parties should concur in their choice of a judge. Each would try to
secure the most powerful man he knew and the one most friendly to
himself, and if he lost he envied his successful rival and hated the
judge who had declared against him, while the man who won claimed to win
because his case was just and felt he owed no gratitude to anybody.
[28] Thus all who wished to be first in the affections of Cyrus, just as
others in democratic states, were full of rancour against each other, in
fact most of them would sooner have seen their rivals exterminated than
join with them for any common good. Such are some of the devices by
which he made the ablest of his subjects more attached to himself than
to one another.

[C.3] I will now describe the first public progress that Cyrus made. For
the very solemnity of the ceremony was one of the artifices by which
he won reverence for his governmen