The March of the Ten Thousand Author:Xenophon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK II. i. 1-4. [In the previous book will be found a full account of the method by hich Cyrus collected a body of Greeks when meditating an expedition ... more » jainst his brother Artaxerxes; as also of various occurrences on the march o ; of the battle itself, and of the death of Cyrus ; and lastly, a description the arrival of the Hellenes in camp after the battle, and as to how they .took themselves to rest, none suspecting but what they were altogether victorious and that Cyrus lived.] i.—With the break of day the generals met, and were surprised that Cyrus should not have appeared himself, or at .iy rate have sent some one to tell them what to do. Accordingly, they resolved to put what they had together, to get under arms, and to push forward until they effected junction with Cyrus. Just as they were on the point of starting, with the rising sun came Procles the ruler of Teuthrania. He was a descendant of Damaratus1 the Laconian, and with him also came Glus the son of Tamos. These two told them, first, that Cyrus was dead; next, that Ariaeus had retreated with the rest of the barbarians to the halting-place whence they had started at dawn on the previous day ; and wished to inform them that, if they were minded to come, he would wait for this one day, but on the morrow he should return home again to Ionia, whence he came. When they heard these tidings, the generals were sorelydistressed; so too were the rest of the Hellenes when they were informed of it. Then Clearchus spoke as follows: " Would that Cyrus were yet alive ! But since he is dead, take back this answer to Ariaeus, that we, at any rate, have conquered the king; and, as you yourselves may see, there is not a man left in the field to meet us. Indeed, had you not arrived, we should ere this have be...« less