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He was the first to issue an order that any of his companions in the hunt who could and would might throw their spears without waiting for him to throw first.1
1 Xenophon (Cyropaedia, i. 4. 14) attributes this innovation to the elder Cyrus; but cf. Ctesias, Persica, frag. 40.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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