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Xenophon's Anabasis, Newly Tr., by a Member of the University of Oxford
Xenophon's Anabasis Newly Tr by a Member of the University of Oxford Author:Xenophon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: BOOK II. CHAP. I. HOW-then the Grecian force was raised for Cyrus, when he marched against his brother Artaxerxes, and what things were done on the road upwards, and how the battle was fought and Cyrus died, and how the Greeks, coming to their camp, reposed themselves to sleep, thinking they had gained a complete victory, and that Cyrus was living, has been 2 shewn in the preceding discourse. At break of day the generals being come together, wondered that Cyrus neither sent another to signify to them what it was necessary to do, nor himself appeared. It seemed, therefore, good to them, having collected what they had, and fully armed themselves, to ad- 3 vance forward, till they joined Cyrus. When they were just on the start, with the rising sun, came Procles, the governor of Teuthrania, sprung from Damaratus the Laconian, and Glus, the son of Tamos. They told them that Cyrus was dead, and that Ariaeus, having run away from the field of battle, was with the rest of the barbarians at the station whence they had issued the day before; and that he said he would wait for them that day, if they intended f to come; but that, on the next day, he told them, he should return on his 4 way to Ionia, whence he came. The generals and the other Greeks, hearing these things, bore them heavily. And Clear- chus said as follows: " Would to God Cyrus were living !J " but since he is dead, carry back this message to Ariaeus, " that we at least are victorious over the king, and, as you " see, no one any longer fights with us: and if you had not " come, we should have marched towards the king. But we That they were vic...« less