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And Pausanias, after remarking on his title of _Eusebæs_ (or Pius), upon the meaning and origin of which there are several different hypotheses, closes with this memorable tribute to his paternal qualities -- _doxæ de emae, kai to onoma to te Kyros pheroito an tos presbyteros, Pater anthropon kalemenos_: _but, in my opinion, he should also bear the name of Cyrus the elder -- being hailed as Father of the Human Race_.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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