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It seemed to the herdsman that this advice was the best under the
circumstances. He therefore followed it without loss of time. The
child which he had intended to put to death he gave over to his wife,
and his own dead child he put in the cradle wherein he had carried the
other, clothing it first in all the other's costly attire, and taking
it in his arms he laid it in the wildest place of all the
mountain-range. When the child had been three days exposed, leaving
one of his helpers to watch the body, he started off for the city, and
going straight to Harpagus's house, declared himself ready to show
the corpse of the boy. Harpagus sent certain of his bodyguard, on
whom he had the firmest reliance, to view the body for him, and,
satisfied with their seeing it, gave orders for the funeral. Thus was
the herdsman's child buried, and the other child, who was afterwards
known by the name of Cyrus, was taken by the herdsman's wife, and
brought up under a different name.
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