could learn from others about him or felt we might infer for ourselves
we will here endeavour to set forth.

[C.2] The father of Cyrus, so runs the story, was Cambyses, a king of
the Persians, and one of the Perseidae, who look to Perseus as the
founder of their race. His mother, it is agreed, was Mandane, the
daughter of Astyages, king of the Medes. Of Cyrus himself, even now in
the songs and stories of the East the record lives that nature made
him most fair to look upon, and set in his heart the threefold love of
man, of knowledge, and of honour. He would endure all labours, he
would undergo all dangers, for the sake of glory. [2] Blest by nature
with such gifts of soul and body, his memory lives to this day in the
mindful heart of ages. It is true that he was brought up according to
the laws and customs of the Persians, and of these laws it must be
noted that while they aim, as laws elsewhere, at the common weal,
their guiding principle is far other than that which most nations
follow. Most states permit their citizens to bring up their own
children at their own discretion, and allow the grown men to regulate
their own lives at their own will, and then they lay down certain
prohibitions, for example, not to pick and steal, not to break into
another man's house, not to strike a man unjustly, not to commit
adultery, not to disobey the magistrate, and so forth; and on the
transgressor they impose a penalty. [3] But the Persian laws try, as
it were, to steal a march on time, to make their citizens from the
beginning incapable of setting their hearts on any wickedness or
shameful conduct whatsoever. And this is how they set about their
object.

In their cities they have an open place or square dedicated to Freedom
(Free Square they call it), where stand the palace and other public