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: RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS. § 1. Effect of the death of Cyrus on the Greeks; they resolve to retreat. The first triumphant feeling of the Greek troops at Kunaxa1 was exchanged, as soon as they learnt the death of Cyrus, for dismay and sorrow; accompanied by unavailing repentance for the venture into which he and Klear- chus had seduced them. Probably Klearchus himself too repented, and with good reason, of having displayed, in his manner of fighting the battle, so little foresight, and so little regard either to the injunctions or to the safety of Cyrus. Nevertheless he still maintained the tone of a victor in the field, and after expressions of grief for the fate of the young prince, desired Prokles and Glus to return to Ariasus, with the reply, that the Greeks on their side were conquerors without any enemy remaining ; that they were about to march onward against Artaxerxes ; and that if Ariaeus would join them, they would place him on the throne which had been intended for Cyrus. While this reply was conveyed to Ariaeus by his particular friend Menon along with the messengers, the Greeks procured a meal as well as they could, having no bread, by killing some of the baggage animals ; and by kindling fire to cook their meat, from the arrows, the wooden Egyptian shields which had been thrown away on the field, and the baggage carts. 1 Kunaxa: see Introduction. Before any answer could be received from Ariaeus, heralds 1 appeared coming from Artaxerxes; among them being Phalinus, a Greek from Zakynthus, and the Greek surgeon Ktesias of Knidus, who was in the service of the Persian king. Phal1nus, an officer of some military experience and in the confidence of Tissaphernes, addressed himself to the Greek commanders ; requiring them on the part of the King, sinc... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.