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| Cyrus exhibited noble behavior even at a very young age, and people took not of the young man, thought to be a herdsman's son, who behaved like a king. Astyages noticed that he and the boy seemed very similar, and questioned Harpagus, whom the king had ordered at first to kill the boy, asking him to explain what he had done with the baby Cyrus,Air Max 1 Shoes, and Harpagus confessed that he had not killed him, but given him to the shepherd Mitradates, telling the herdsman to leave the baby to die on the mountainside.
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