# Cyrus — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Cyrus in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Founder of the Persian Empire, used as an example of virtuous princely conduct.

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