Parrhasia ...accompanied by three hundred Greek hoplites,4 under the command of Xenias of Parrhasia. [3] When Darius had died and Artaxerxes had become established as king...
Parrhasia
79 22.25,37.25,0 Thessaly ...to terms with his opponents until he had consulted with him. Thus the army in Thessaly, again, was being secretly maintained for him. [11] Furthermore, Cyrus...
Thessaly
80 22.204407006419558,39.51468942179051,0 Pisidians ...his upward10 march, the pretext he offered was that he wished to drive the Pisidians out of his land entirely, and it was avowedly against them that he set about...
Pisidians
77 32.5,37.5,0 Pisidians ...the conclusion that Cyrus' preparations were too extensive to be against the Pisidians; he accordingly made his way to the King as quickly as he could, with about...
Pisidians
79 32.5,37.5,0 Thymbrium ...[13] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Thymbrium. There, alongside the road, was the so-called spring of Midas, the king of the...
Thymbrium
78 26.25,39.75,0 Phocaean ...plunder of various sorts in abundance, while in particular he captured the Phocaean woman, Cyrus' concubine, who, by all accounts, was clever and beautiful. [3]...
Phocaean
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Paphlagonian ...and his army took the left end of the Greek wing. [5] As for the barbarians, Paphlagonian horsemen to the number of a thousand took station beside Clearchus on the right...
Paphlagonian
79 33.23855021666667,41.44846296666666,0 Chersonese ...to Tissaphernes. [9] Still another army was being collected for him in the Chersonese which is opposite Abydus, in the following manner: Clearchus7 was a...
Chersonese
78 Syracusan ...did not lead the army up the hill, but halted at its foot and sent Lycius the Syracusan and another man to the summit, directing them to observe what was beyond the...
Syracusan
80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Maeander ...through Lydia three stages,13 a distance of twenty-two parasangs,14 to the Maeander river. The width of this river was two plethra,15 and there was a bridge over...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Milesian ...get, saying that he intended to make war upon Tissaphernes with the aid of the Milesian exiles; and they proceeded to carry out his directions. 2. When he thought the...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Celaenae ...city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly fortified and situated at the foot of the Acropolis over the sources...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Tyriaeum ...water of the spring.26 [14] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to Tyriaeum, an inhabited city. There he remained three days. And the Cilician queen, as...
Tyriaeum
78 31.91389,38.27917,0 Celaenae ...river; its sources are beneath the palace, and it flows through the city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly...
Celaenae
78 30.16557,38.065,0 Celaenae ...river; its sources are beneath the palace, and it flows through the city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly...
Celaenae
78 30.16557,38.065,0 Cilician ...heels; while the Greeks with a roar of laughter came up to their camp. Now the Cilician queen was filled with admiration at beholding the brilliant appearance and the...
Cilician
81 35.75,38.25,0 Cilician ...on the ground that it was hostile territory.28 [20] From there Cyrus sent the Cilician queen back to Cilicia by the shortest route, and he sent some of Menon's troops...
Cilician
80 35.75,38.25,0 Greek ...with admiration at beholding the brilliant appearance and the order of the Greek army; and Cyrus was delighted to see the terror with which the Greeks inspired...
Greek
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...the others beyond Proxenus, while Menon and his army took the left end of the Greek wing. [5] As for the barbarians, Paphlagonian horsemen to the number of a...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...of a thousand took station beside Clearchus on the right wing, as did the Greek peltasts, on the left was Ariaeus, Cyrus' lieutenant, with the rest of the...
Greek
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...[24] Thereupon Cyrus, seized with fear lest he might get in the rear of the Greek troops and cut them to pieces, charged to meet him; and attacking with his six...
Greek
79 22.5,37.5,0 Cappadocia ...he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty it is to muster...
Cappadocia
79 37.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...it made of seven boats. [6] After crossing the Maeander he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited16 city...
Phrygia
77 32.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...it made of seven boats. [6] After crossing the Maeander he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited16 city...
Phrygia
77 32.5,37.5,0 Persian ...There they remained three days; and during that time Cyrus put to death a Persian named Megaphernes, who was a wearer of the royal purple,29 and another...
Persian
76 Persian ...Cyrus was intending to halt had been almost reached, when Pategyas, a trusty Persian of Cyrus' staff, came into sight, riding at full speed, with his horse in a...
Persian
79 Cilicians ...time four months' wages. The Cilician queen was attended by a body-guard of Cilicians and Aspendians; and people said that Cyrus had intimate relations with the...
Cilicians
78 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...one on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by Syennesis and a garrison of Cilicians, while the one on the farther, the Syrian, side was reported to be guarded by a...
Cilicians
79 33.25,36.25,0 Babylon ...summoned the generals of the Greeks and told them that the march was to be to Babylon, against the Great King; he directed them, accordingly, to explain this to the...
Babylon
80 44.42082,32.53617,0 Greece ...[14] One man in particular, pretending to be in a hurry to proceed back to Greece with all speed, proposed that they should choose other generals as quickly as...
Greece
77 22.5,37.5,0 Thapsacus ...four stadia; and on the river was situated a large and prosperous city named Thapsacus. There he remained five days. And Cyrus summoned the generals of the Greeks and...
Thapsacus
79 44.5,31.5,0 Greece ...us, but that I shall not have enough friends to give to. And as for you men of Greece, I shall give each one of you a wreath of gold besides.” [8] When they heard...
Greece
81 22.5,37.5,0 Dolopians ...arrived, with a thousand hoplites and five hundred peltasts, consisting of Dolopians, Aenianians, and Olynthians. [7] Thence he marched three stages, twenty...
Dolopians
77 21.75,39.25,0 Megarian ...Socrates the Achaean with about five hundred hoplites; and Pasion the Megarian arrived with three hundred hoplites and three hundred peltasts.12 The...
Megarian
72 15.18273,37.2038,0 Maeander ...and there was a bridge over it made of seven boats. [6] After crossing the Maeander he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Megarian ...There he remained seven days; [7] and Xenias the Arcadian and Pasion the Megarian embarked upon a ship, put on board their most valuable effects, and sailed...
Megarian
75 15.18273,37.2038,0 Thessalian ...army also was being secretly maintained for Cyrus. [10] Again, Aristippus the Thessalian chanced to be a friend of Cyrus, and since he was hard pressed by his political...
Thessalian
81 22.2,39.6,0 Marsyas ...at the foot of the Acropolis over the sources of the Marsyas river; the Marsyas also flows through the city, and empties into the Maeander, and its width is...
Marsyas
74 37.75,37.25,0 Cilicia ...abandoned the heights, because he had learned that Menon's army was already in Cilicia, on his own side of the mountains, and because, further, he was getting reports...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...King. [4] Thence he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria. These Gates consisted of two walls; the one on the hither, or...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Sardis ...said, of my brother, this man levied war upon me, holding the citadel of Sardis, and I, by the war I waged against him, made him count it best to cease from...
Sardis
75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Marsyas ...which the sources issue, and it is for this reason that the river is called Marsyas. [9] It was here also, report has it, that Xerxes, when he was on his retreat...
Marsyas
78 37.75,37.25,0 Greece ...us, but that I shall not have enough friends to give to. And as for you men of Greece, I shall give each one of you a wreath of gold besides.” [8] When they heard...
Greece
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...war upon the Thracians who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.9 Consequently, the Hellespontine cities of their own free will sent Clearchus...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...of the Greek army; and Cyrus was delighted to see the terror with which the Greeks inspired the barbarians. [19] Thence he marched three stages, twenty...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...of their former excellence in my service.” [9] Such were his words; as for the Greeks, even those who had been somewhat despondent in regard to the upward march...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...hurt in the least, nor, for that matter, did any other single man among the Greeks get any hurt whatever in this battle, save that some one on the left wing was...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Samian ...choose life with me in preference to life at home.” [5] Hereupon Gaulites, a Samian exile who was there and was in the confidence of Cyrus, said: “And yet, Cyrus...
Samian
80 26.84,37.73,0 Issus ...as admiral in command of them. They had been guided from Ephesus to Issus by Tamos the Egyptian, who was at the head of another fleet of twenty-five...
Issus
70 36.15704,36.85367,0 Issus ...and there remained also those who dwelt on the sea-coast, in Soli and Issus.33 [25] Now Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, had reached Tarsus five days ahead...
Issus
72 36.15704,36.85367,0 Lacedaemonian ...Chersonese which is opposite Abydus, in the following manner: Clearchus7 was a Lacedaemonian exile; Cyrus, making his acquaintance, came to admire him, and gave him ten...
Lacedaemonian
81 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cilicians ...one on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by Syennesis and a garrison of Cilicians, while the one on the farther, the Syrian, side was reported to be guarded by a...
Cilicians
79 33.25,36.25,0 Lacedaemonian ...the citadel of Celaenae. Here Cyrus remained thirty days; and Clearchus, the Lacedaemonian exile, arrived, with a thousand hoplites, eight hundred Thracian peltasts, and...
Lacedaemonian
79 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Peltae ...two thousand peltasts.21 [10] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to Peltae, an inhabited city. There he remained three days, during which time Xenias the...
Peltae
81 29.73861,38.30139,0 Thymbrium ...[13] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Thymbrium. There, alongside the road, was the so-called spring of Midas, the king of the...
Thymbrium
78 Phoenicia ...chariots, were present at the battle; for Abrocomas, marching from Phoenicia, arrived five days too late for the engagement. [13] Such were the reports...
Phoenicia
69 35.25,33.25,0 Persians ...wore a necklace and bracelets and all the other ornaments that the noblest Persians wear; for he had been honoured by Cyrus because of his affection and fidelity...
Persians
77 Sardis ...he set about making counter-preparations. Cyrus was now setting forth from Sardis with the troops I have mentioned; and he marched through Lydia three stages,13...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...he set about making counter-preparations. Cyrus was now setting forth from Sardis with the troops I have mentioned; and he marched through Lydia three stages,13...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were hoplites to the number of four...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Syria ...he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria. These Gates consisted of two walls; the one on the hither, or Cilician, side...
Syria
73 37.5,37.5,0 Babylon ...promised that he would give every man five minas49 in silver when they reached Babylon and their pay in full until he brought the Greeks back to Ionia again.50 By...
Babylon
81 44.42082,32.53617,0 Cilicia ...were plotting against him. [21] From there they made ready to try to enter Cilicia. Now the entrance was by a wagon-road, exceedingly steep and impracticable for...
Cilicia
78 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Tarsus,32 a large and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, was situated; and...
Cilicia
77 35.75,38.25,0 Marsyas ...is twenty-five feet. It was here, according to the story, that Apollo flayed Marsyas,19 after having defeated him in a contest of musical skill; he hung up his skin...
Marsyas
79 37.75,37.25,0 Phrygian ...stages, twelve parasangs, to the inhabited city of Ceramon-agora,23 the last Phrygian city as one goes toward Mysia. [11] Thence he marched three stages, thirty...
Phrygian
79 29.75,38.75,0 Cydnus ...was situated; and through the middle of the city flows a river named the Cydnus, two plethra in width. [24] The inhabitants of this city had abandoned it and...
Cydnus
75 34.8077584,36.9507186,0 Cilicians ...the mountains without meeting any opposition, and saw the camp where the Cilicians had been keeping guard. Thence he descended to a large and beautiful plain...
Cilicians
75 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...army34 had been lost. Some said that they had been cut to pieces by the Cilicians while engaged in a bit of plundering; another story was that they had been left...
Cilicians
74 33.25,36.25,0 Syracusan ...peltasts, and two hundred Cretan bowmen. At the same time came also Sosis the Syracusan with three hundred hoplites and Agias the Arcadian with a thousand hoplites...
Syracusan
80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Arcadian ...an inhabited city. There he remained three days, during which time Xenias the Arcadian celebrated the Lycaean22 festival with sacrifice and held games; the prizes...
Arcadian
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedaemonian ...and had supported Cyrus in his war upon Tissaphernes. [3] Cheirisophus the Lacedaemonian also arrived with this fleet, coming in response to Cyrus' summons,41 together...
Lacedaemonian
77 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Amphipolis ...as they went through. The commander of the Greek peltasts was Episthenes of Amphipolis, and it was said that he proved himself a sagacious man. [8] At any rate, after...
Amphipolis
78 23.840418,40.818876,0 Persians ...was also invited into the tent as a counsellor, for both Cyrus and the other Persians regarded him as the man who was honoured above the rest of the Greeks. And when...
Persians
79 Persians ...his end, a man who was the most kingly and the most worthy to rule of all the Persians who have been born since Cyrus the Elder, as all agree who are reputed to have...
Persians
80 Cilicians ...and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, was situated; and through the middle of the city flows a river named the...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...army34 had been lost. Some said that they had been cut to pieces by the Cilicians while engaged in a bit of plundering; another story was that they had been left...
Cilicians
74 33.25,36.25,0 Tyriaeum ...water of the spring.26 [14] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to Tyriaeum, an inhabited city. There he remained three days. And the Cilician queen, as...
Tyriaeum
78 31.91389,38.27917,0 Iconium ...the barbarians. [19] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched...
Iconium
77 32.3745104,38.1910079,0 Issus ...and there remained also those who dwelt on the sea-coast, in Soli and Issus.33 [25] Now Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, had reached Tarsus five days ahead...
Issus
72 36.15704,36.85367,0 Thessalian ...city, prosperous and large. There he remained seven days; and Menon17 the Thessalian arrived, with a thousand hoplites and five hundred peltasts, consisting of...
Thessalian
76 22.2,39.6,0 Phrygians ...There, alongside the road, was the so-called spring of Midas, the king of the Phrygians, at which Midas, according to the story, caught the satyr by mixing wine with...
Phrygians
80 32.5,37.5,0 Chersonese ...taking the gold, collected an army by means of this money, and using the Chersonese as a base of operations, proceeded to make war upon the Thracians who dwell...
Chersonese
75 Chersonese ...Greece I inflicted punishment upon them with your aid, driving them out of the Chersonese when they wanted to deprive the Greeks who dwelt there of their land. Then when...
Chersonese
81 Milesian ...Cyrus' concubine, who, by all accounts, was clever and beautiful. [3] The Milesian woman, however, the younger one, after being seized by the King's men made her...
Milesian
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Greeks ...was what he desired to make, and accordingly he held a review of the Greeks and the barbarians on the plain. [15] He ordered the Greeks to form their lines...
Greeks
71 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Lycaonia five stages, thirty parasangs. This country he gave over to the Greeks to plunder, on the ground that it was hostile territory.28 [20] From there...
Greeks
75 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...Thapsacus. There he remained five days. And Cyrus summoned the generals of the Greeks and told them that the march was to be to Babylon, against the Great King; he...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...cross the Euphrates river before it is clear what answer the rest of the Greeks will make to Cyrus. [15] For if they vote to follow him, it is you who will get...
Greeks
75 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...his army. At this time Cyrus called together the generals and captains of the Greeks, and not only took counsel with them as to how he should fight the battle, but...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...met; the intention, then, was that they should drive into the ranks of the Greeks and cut the troops to pieces. [11] As for the statement, however, which Cyrus...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...however, through the Greek lines, but without charioteers. And whenever the Greeks saw them coming, they would open a gap for their passage; one fellow, to be...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...wing was reported to have been hit by an arrow. [21] When Cyrus saw that the Greeks were victorious over the division opposite them and were in pursuit, although...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...through the Greek peltasts77; he did not kill anyone in his passage, but the Greeks, after opening a gap for his men, proceeded to deal blows and throw javelins...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...not now foot-soldiers, but the hill was covered with horsemen, so that the Greeks could not perceive what was going on. They did see, they said, the royal...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...at a greater distance from the Greeks than they were the first time. [12] The Greeks pursued as far as a certain village, and there they halted; for above the...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the worst of it, he did not wheel round again, but went on to the camp of the Greeks and there fell in with the King; so it was that, after forming their lines once...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...need should overtake the army, he might have supplies to distribute among the Greeks (and there were four hundred of these wagons, it was said), these also the King...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Tarsus ...he marched through this plain four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Tarsus,32 a large and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the...
Tarsus
71 34.89277,36.91766,0 Cilicia ...to the Lacedaemonians30 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos. [22] At any rate31 Cyrus climbed the mountains...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Ionia ...they reached Babylon and their pay in full until he brought the Greeks back to Ionia again.50 By these promises the greater part of the Greek army was...
Ionia
81 Tarsus ...numbered a hundred hoplites. [26] And when the rest of Menon's troops reached Tarsus, in their anger over the loss of their comrades they plundered thoroughly, not...
Tarsus
80 34.89277,36.91766,0 Pisidians ...men as he could get, saying that he wished to undertake a campaign against the Pisidians, because, as he said, they were causing trouble to his province. He also...
Pisidians
81 32.5,37.5,0 Euphrates ...places, Clearchus occupying the right end of the Greek wing,66 close to the Euphrates river, Proxenus next to him, and the others beyond Proxenus, while Menon and...
Euphrates
78 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...follow him against the King; my own plan, then, is that you should cross the Euphrates river before it is clear what answer the rest of the Greeks will make to Cyrus...
Euphrates
79 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...and are a parsang apart, and there are bridges over them.] and alongside the Euphrates there was a narrow passage, not more than about twenty feet in width, between...
Euphrates
79 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Mysia ...inhabited city of Ceramon-agora,23 the last Phrygian city as one goes toward Mysia. [11] Thence he marched three stages, thirty parasangs, to Caystru-pedion,24 an...
Mysia
79 27.184419878077563,39.13112815791898,0 Arcadian ...time came also Sosis the Syracusan with three hundred hoplites and Agias the Arcadian with a thousand hoplites. And here Cyrus held a review and made an enumeration...
Arcadian
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Iconium ...the barbarians. [19] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched...
Iconium
77 32.3745104,38.1910079,0 Persian ...up fodder and everything else that was of any use. At this time Orontas, a Persian, who was related to the King by birth and was reckoned among the best of the...
Persian
77 Persian ...see what the King would do. For he knew that the King held the centre of the Persian army; [22] in fact, all the generals of the barbarians hold their own centre...
Persian
79 Miletus ...to Tissaphernes, by gift of the King,6 but at that time all of them except Miletus had revolted and gone over to Cyrus. [7] The people of Miletus also were...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...took the exiles under his protection, collected an army, and laid siege to Miletus both by land and by sea, and endeavoured to restore the exiles to their city...
Miletus
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Cappadocia ...he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty it is to muster...
Cappadocia
79 37.5,37.5,0 Milesian ...Cyrus' concubine, who, by all accounts, was clever and beautiful. [3] The Milesian woman, however, the younger one, after being seized by the King's men made her...
Milesian
76 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Tarsus ...they should chance upon them anywhere. 3. Cyrus and his army remained here at Tarsus twenty days, for the soldiers refused to go any farther; for they suspected by...
Tarsus
81 34.89277,36.91766,0 Celaenae ...city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly fortified and situated at the foot of the Acropolis over the sources...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Celaenae ...river; its sources are beneath the palace, and it flows through the city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly...
Celaenae
78 30.16557,38.065,0 Castolus ...commander of all the troops whose duty it is to muster in the plain of Castolus, he showed, in the first place, that he counted it of the utmost importance...
Castolus
73 Lydia ...to many. [7] Again, when he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the...
Lydia
77 27.5,37.5,0 Lydia ...forth from Sardis with the troops I have mentioned; and he marched through Lydia three stages,13 a distance of twenty-two parasangs,14 to the Maeander river...
Lydia
77 27.5,37.5,0 Greek ...the ships lay at anchor alongside Cyrus' tent. It was at Issus also that the Greek mercenaries who had been in the service of Abrocomas—four hundred...
Greek
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...blows and throw javelins upon them as they went through. The commander of the Greek peltasts was Episthenes of Amphipolis, and it was said that he proved himself a...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Samian ...choose life with me in preference to life at home.” [5] Hereupon Gaulites, a Samian exile who was there and was in the confidence of Cyrus, said: “And yet, Cyrus...
Samian
80 26.84,37.73,0 Cilician ...of the camp. [18] As for the barbarians, they were terribly frightened; the Cilician queen took to flight in her carriage, and the people in the market27 left their...
Cilician
78 35.75,38.25,0 Greece ...but, for his own part, exhorted and encouraged them as follows: [3] “Men of Greece, it is not because I have not barbarians enough that I have brought you hither...
Greece
78 22.5,37.5,0 Myriandus ...hundred thousand men. [6] Thence Cyrus marched one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city on the sea coast, inhabited by Phoenicians; it was a trading place, and...
Myriandus
80 36.02416670000002,36.4941667,0 Iconium ...the barbarians. [19] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched...
Iconium
77 32.3745104,38.1910079,0 Milesians ...than Tissaphernes, with the exception of Miletus;74 and the reason why the Milesians feared him was, that he would not prove false to the exiles from their city...
Milesians
77 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Abydus ...another army was being collected for him in the Chersonese which is opposite Abydus, in the following manner: Clearchus7 was a Lacedaemonian exile; Cyrus, making...
Abydus
79 26.41271,40.15552,0 Egyptians ...hoplites with wooden shields which reached to their feet, these latter being Egyptians, people said; and then more horsemen and more bowmen. All these troops were...
Egyptians
79 30.567329633333333,19.211408766666665,0 Milesian ...get, saying that he intended to make war upon Tissaphernes with the aid of the Milesian exiles; and they proceeded to carry out his directions. 2. When he thought the...
Milesian
81 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Milesian ...He likewise summoned the troops which were besieging Miletus, and urged the Milesian exiles to take the field with him, promising them that, if he should...
Milesian
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Athenian ...direction, both at his enemies and his friends. [15] Then Xenophon,67 an Athenian, seeing him from the Greek army, approached so as to meet him and asked if he...
Athenian
75 23.726464,37.971687,0 Tarsus ...in Soli and Issus.33 [25] Now Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, had reached Tarsus five days ahead of Cyrus, but in the course of her passage over the mountains...
Tarsus
76 34.89277,36.91766,0 Celaenae ...city of Celaenae also. [8] There is likewise a palace of the Great King18 in Celaenae, strongly fortified and situated at the foot of the Acropolis over the sources...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Celaenae ...famous battle,20 built the palace just mentioned and likewise the citadel of Celaenae. Here Cyrus remained thirty days; and Clearchus, the Lacedaemonian exile...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Greeks ...thousand hoplites. And here Cyrus held a review and made an enumeration of the Greeks in the park, and they amounted all told to eleven thousand hoplites and about...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...of the phalanx, and sending his interpreter Pigres to the generals of the Greeks, gave orders that the troops should advance arms and the phalanx move forward...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...space and spoke as follows: [16] “Clearchus, and Proxenus, and all you other Greeks who are here, you know not what you are doing. For as certainly as you come to...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...three stages, twelve parasangs. On the third stage he held a review of the Greeks and the barbarians on the plain at about midnight; for he thought that at the...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...And before an arrow reached them, the barbarians broke and fled. Thereupon the Greeks pursued with all their might, but shouted meanwhile to one another not to run...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the King and the Greeks were distant from one another about thirty stadia, the Greeks pursuing the troops in their front, in the belief that they were victorious...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...them, just as when he had met them for battle the first time.80 And when the Greeks saw that the enemy were near them and in battle-order, they again struck up the...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...proceeding together. [9] When they were over against the left wing of the Greeks,78 the latter conceived the fear that they might advance against that wing and...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Mysians ...he honoured especially. For example, he was once at war with the Pisidians and Mysians and commanded in person an expedition into their territories; and whomsoever in...
Mysians
81 27.184419878077563,39.13112815791898,0 Cilicia ...stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Tarsus,32 a large and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, was situated; and...
Cilicia
77 35.75,38.25,0 Greeks ...[11] As for the statement, however, which Cyrus made when he called the Greeks together and urged them to hold out against the shouting of the barbarians, he...
Greeks
74 22.5,37.5,0 Cappadocia ...Menon himself commanding them. With the rest of the army Cyrus marched through Cappadocia four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Dana, an inhabited city, large and...
Cappadocia
81 37.5,37.5,0 Cilicia ...Abrocomas, however, did not do so, but as soon as he heard that Cyrus was in Cilicia, he turned about in his journey from Phoenicia42 and marched off to join the...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Abydus ...another army was being collected for him in the Chersonese which is opposite Abydus, in the following manner: Clearchus7 was a Lacedaemonian exile; Cyrus, making...
Abydus
79 26.41271,40.15552,0 Tarsus ...they should chance upon them anywhere. 3. Cyrus and his army remained here at Tarsus twenty days, for the soldiers refused to go any farther; for they suspected by...
Tarsus
81 34.89277,36.91766,0 Greek ...taking with him Tissaphernes as a friend and accompanied by three hundred Greek hoplites,4 under the command of Xenias of Parrhasia. [3] When Darius had died...
Greek
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...avowedly against them that he set about collecting both his barbarian and his Greek troops. At that time he also sent word to Clearchus to come to him with the...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...in great haste to take their places, Clearchus occupying the right end of the Greek wing,66 close to the Euphrates river, Proxenus next to him, and the others...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...when he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty...
Phrygia
71 32.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages...
Phrygia
74 32.5,37.5,0 Greek ...and his friends. [15] Then Xenophon,67 an Athenian, seeing him from the Greek army, approached so as to meet him and asked if he had any orders to give; and...
Greek
74 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...It was here also, report has it, that Xerxes, when he was on his retreat from Greece after losing the famous battle,20 built the palace just mentioned and likewise...
Greece
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...soldiers had gone over to Clearchus43 with the intention of going back to Greece again instead of proceeding against the King, and Cyrus had allowed Clearchus...
Greece
76 22.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace and a large park full of wild...
Phrygia
79 32.5,37.5,0 Phrygia ...when he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty...
Phrygia
71 32.5,37.5,0 Thymbrium ...[13] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Thymbrium. There, alongside the road, was the so-called spring of Midas, the king of the...
Thymbrium
78 Cilicia ...was hostile territory.28 [20] From there Cyrus sent the Cilician queen back to Cilicia by the shortest route, and he sent some of Menon's troops to escort her, Menon...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Lycaonia ...last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages, thirty parasangs. This country he gave over to the Greeks to...
Lycaonia
80 32.5,37.5,0 Greece ...It was here also, report has it, that Xerxes, when he was on his retreat from Greece after losing the famous battle,20 built the palace just mentioned and likewise...
Greece
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...it on you. [4] First I went to war with the Thracians, and for the sake of Greece I inflicted punishment upon them with your aid, driving them out of the...
Greece
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...soldiers had gone over to Clearchus43 with the intention of going back to Greece again instead of proceeding against the King, and Cyrus had allowed Clearchus...
Greece
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greece ...but, for his own part, exhorted and encouraged them as follows: [3] “Men of Greece, it is not because I have not barbarians enough that I have brought you hither...
Greece
78 22.5,37.5,0 Cilicia ...there he marched two stages, fifteen parasangs, to Issus, the last city in Cilicia, a place situated on the sea, and large and prosperous. [2] There they remained...
Cilicia
77 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicians ...the mountains without meeting any opposition, and saw the camp where the Cilicians had been keeping guard. Thence he descended to a large and beautiful plain...
Cilicians
75 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...[12] At this juncture arrived Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, the king25 of the Cilicians, coming to visit Cyrus, and the story was that she gave him a large sum of...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Arcadian ...were lying at anchor there. There he remained seven days; [7] and Xenias the Arcadian and Pasion the Megarian embarked upon a ship, put on board their most valuable...
Arcadian
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Peloponnesian ...to the commanders of all the garrisons he had in the cities to enlist as many Peloponnesian soldiers of the best sort as they severally could, on the plea that...
Peloponnesian
80 22.312752688461543,37.25289777692308,0 Olynthians ...hoplites and five hundred peltasts, consisting of Dolopians, Aenianians, and Olynthians. [7] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an...
Olynthians
79 23.354208,40.296525,0 Cappadocia ...Menon himself commanding them. With the rest of the army Cyrus marched through Cappadocia four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Dana, an inhabited city, large and...
Cappadocia
81 37.5,37.5,0 Miletus ...belonging to Cyrus—these latter being the ships with which Tamos had besieged Miletus, at the time when it was friendly to Tissaphernes,40 and had supported Cyrus in...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace and a large park full of wild...
Phrygia
79 32.5,37.5,0 Euphrates ...army. He replied that he had heard that Abrocomas, a foe of his, was at the Euphrates river, twelve stages distant. It was against him, therefore, he said, that he...
Euphrates
78 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...and provisioned the army. 5. Thence he marched through Arabia, keeping the Euphrates on the right, five stages through desert country, thirty-five parasangs. In...
Euphrates
78 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...in case one should be swift in making his attack upon it. [10] Across the Euphrates river in the course of these desert marches was a large and prosperous city...
Euphrates
77 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Celaenae ...and Olynthians. [7] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace...
Celaenae
75 30.16557,38.065,0 Colossae ...he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited16 city, prosperous and large. There he remained seven days; and...
Colossae
74 29.2598,37.78671,0 Cydnus ...was situated; and through the middle of the city flows a river named the Cydnus, two plethra in width. [24] The inhabitants of this city had abandoned it and...
Cydnus
75 34.8077584,36.9507186,0 Arcadian ...an inhabited city. There he remained three days, during which time Xenias the Arcadian celebrated the Lycaean22 festival with sacrifice and held games; the prizes...
Arcadian
80 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Hellespont ...of operations, proceeded to make war upon the Thracians who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.9 Consequently, the Hellespontine cities of their...
Hellespont
79 Sardis ...said, of my brother, this man levied war upon me, holding the citadel of Sardis, and I, by the war I waged against him, made him count it best to cease from...
Sardis
75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...said, of my brother, this man levied war upon me, holding the citadel of Sardis, and I, by the war I waged against him, made him count it best to cease from...
Sardis
75 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...force that had been engaged in besieging Miletus. All these came to Cyrus at Sardis. [4] Meanwhile Tissaphernes had taken note of these proceedings and come to...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...force that had been engaged in besieging Miletus. All these came to Cyrus at Sardis. [4] Meanwhile Tissaphernes had taken note of these proceedings and come to...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...gladly obeyed—for they trusted him—and presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Thapsacus ...crossing no one was wetted above the breast by the water. [18] The people of Thapsacus said that this river had never been passable on foot except at this time, but...
Thapsacus
79 44.5,31.5,0 Phoenicia ...chariots, were present at the battle; for Abrocomas, marching from Phoenicia, arrived five days too late for the engagement. [13] Such were the reports...
Phoenicia
69 35.25,33.25,0 Cilicians ...should forestall them—“and we have in our possession,” he said, “many of these Cilicians and much of their property that we have seized as plunder.” Such were the words...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...to occupy the mountain heights in advance, in order that neither Cyrus nor the Cilicians should forestall them—“and we have in our possession,” he said, “many of these...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the king of the Cilicians, was situated; and through the middle of the city flows a river named the...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Persians ...it, he had Orontas arrested, and summoned to his tent seven of the noblest Persians among his attendants, while he ordered the Greek generals to bring up hoplites...
Persians
77 Lycaonia ...last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages, thirty parasangs. This country he gave over to the Greeks to...
Lycaonia
80 32.5,37.5,0 Thracians ...using the Chersonese as a base of operations, proceeded to make war upon the Thracians who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.9 Consequently, the...
Thracians
79 23.129408,40.288041,0 Miletus ...of them except Miletus had revolted and gone over to Cyrus. [7] The people of Miletus also were planning to do the very same thing, namely, to go over to Cyrus, but...
Miletus
80 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Miletus ...and Socrates also, belonged to the force that had been engaged in besieging Miletus. All these came to Cyrus at Sardis. [4] Meanwhile Tissaphernes had taken note...
Miletus
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phrygia ...it made of seven boats. [6] After crossing the Maeander he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited16 city...
Phrygia
77 32.5,37.5,0 Pisidians ...agree, whom he honoured especially. For example, he was once at war with the Pisidians and Mysians and commanded in person an expedition into their territories; and...
Pisidians
79 32.5,37.5,0 Euphrates ...the palace. [11] Thence he marched three stages, fifteen parasangs, to the Euphrates river, the width of which was four stadia; and on the river was situated a...
Euphrates
77 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Euphrates ...marched thirteen stages through desert country, ninety parasangs, keeping the Euphrates river on the right, and arrived at Pylae. In the course of these stages many of...
Euphrates
80 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Thessaly ...to terms with his opponents until he had consulted with him. Thus the army in Thessaly, again, was being secretly maintained for him. [11] Furthermore, Cyrus...
Thessaly
80 22.204407006419558,39.51468942179051,0 Hellespontine ...who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.9 Consequently, the Hellespontine cities of their own free will sent Clearchus contributions of money for the...
Hellespontine
81 Maeander ...and there was a bridge over it made of seven boats. [6] After crossing the Maeander he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Thessaly ...to terms with his opponents until he had consulted with him. Thus the army in Thessaly, again, was being secretly maintained for him. [11] Furthermore, Cyrus...
Thessaly
80 22.204407006419558,39.51468942179051,0 Syracusan ...peltasts, and two hundred Cretan bowmen. At the same time came also Sosis the Syracusan with three hundred hoplites and Agias the Arcadian with a thousand hoplites...
Syracusan
80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Abydus ...another army was being collected for him in the Chersonese which is opposite Abydus, in the following manner: Clearchus7 was a Lacedaemonian exile; Cyrus, making...
Abydus
79 26.41271,40.15552,0 Celaenae ...and Olynthians. [7] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace...
Celaenae
75 30.16557,38.065,0 Greeks ...in the market27 left their wares behind and took to their heels; while the Greeks with a roar of laughter came up to their camp. Now the Cilician queen was...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...your aid, driving them out of the Chersonese when they wanted to deprive the Greeks who dwelt there of their land. Then when Cyrus' summons came, I took you with...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...other Persians regarded him as the man who was honoured above the rest of the Greeks. And when he came out, he reported to his friends how Orontas' trial was...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in the belief that they were all victorious already. [5] When, however, the Greeks learned that the King and his forces were in their baggage train, and the King...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...on a shield, raised aloft upon a pole. [13] But when at this point also the Greeks resumed their forward movement, the horsemen at once proceeded to leave the...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Cilicia ...was hostile territory.28 [20] From there Cyrus sent the Cilician queen back to Cilicia by the shortest route, and he sent some of Menon's troops to escort her, Menon...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...abandoned the heights, because he had learned that Menon's army was already in Cilicia, on his own side of the mountains, and because, further, he was getting reports...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...were plotting against him. [21] From there they made ready to try to enter Cilicia. Now the entrance was by a wagon-road, exceedingly steep and impracticable for...
Cilicia
78 35.75,38.25,0 Greeks ...enemy were in headlong flight. [16] At about this time the sun set. Then the Greeks halted, grounded arms, and proceeded to rest themselves. At the same time they...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Tigris ...to the wall of Media,62 [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river; they are four in number, each a plethrum wide and exceedingly deep, and...
Tigris
73 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Mysians ...you yourself admit, you had suffered no wrong at my hands, desert me for the Mysians, and do all the harm you could to my territory?” “Yes,” said Orontas. “Did you...
Mysians
79 27.184419878077563,39.13112815791898,0 Babylonia ...and no grave of his was ever seen. 7. From there Cyrus marched through Babylonia three stages, twelve parasangs. On the third stage he held a review of the...
Babylonia
74 44.5,32.5,0 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace and a large park full of wild...
Phrygia
79 32.5,37.5,0 Greek ...the Greeks back to Ionia again.50 By these promises the greater part of the Greek army was persuaded. But as for Menon, before it was clear what the rest of the...
Greek
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...tent seven of the noblest Persians among his attendants, while he ordered the Greek generals to bring up hoplites and bid them station themselves under arms around...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...there Cyrus marched one stage, three parasangs, with his whole army, Greek and barbarian alike, drawn up in line of battle; for he supposed that on that...
Greek
71 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...and at once shouted out to everyone he met, in the barbarian tongue and in Greek, that the King was approaching with a large army, all ready for battle. [2]...
Greek
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...frontlets and breast-pieces; and the men carried, besides their other weapons, Greek sabres. [8] And now it was midday, and the enemy were not yet in sight; but...
Greek
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...[14] At this critical time the King's army was advancing evenly, while the Greek force, still remaining in the same place, was forming its line from those who...
Greek
78 22.5,37.5,0 Issus ...which was a stadium.38 From there he marched two stages, fifteen parasangs, to Issus, the last city in Cilicia, a place situated on the sea, and large and...
Issus
81 36.15704,36.85367,0 Issus ...army of Cyrus. And the ships lay at anchor alongside Cyrus' tent. It was at Issus also that the Greek mercenaries who had been in the service of Abrocomas—four...
Issus
78 36.15704,36.85367,0 Arcadian ...at home and send him the army which he had; and he sent word to Xenias the Arcadian, who commanded for him the mercenary force in the cities,11 to come with his...
Arcadian
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Media ...through the plain for a distance of twelve parasangs, reaching to the wall of Media,62 [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river; they are four...
Media
80 Persian ...with a gold-mounted bridle, a gold necklace and bracelets, a gold dagger and a Persian robe—promising him, further, that his land should not be plundered any more and...
Persian
81 Syria ...of which is a plethrum. There was the palace of Belesys, the late ruler of Syria, and a very large and beautiful park containing all the products of the...
Syria
77 37.5,37.5,0 Sardis ...gladly obeyed—for they trusted him—and presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Syria ...Cyrus because he was destined to be king. [19] Thence he marched through Syria nine stages, fifty parasangs, and they arrived at the Araxes river. There they...
Syria
76 37.5,37.5,0 Sardis ...gladly obeyed—for they trusted him—and presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Greece ...it on you. [4] First I went to war with the Thracians, and for the sake of Greece I inflicted punishment upon them with your aid, driving them out of the...
Greece
77 22.5,37.5,0 Babylon ...mill-stones along the river banks, then fashioning them and taking them to Babylon, where they sold them and bought grain in exchange. [6] As for the troops...
Babylon
77 44.42082,32.53617,0 Cilicia ...Abrocomas, however, did not do so, but as soon as he heard that Cyrus was in Cilicia, he turned about in his journey from Phoenicia42 and marched off to join the...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Marsyas ...fortified and situated at the foot of the Acropolis over the sources of the Marsyas river; the Marsyas also flows through the city, and empties into the Maeander...
Marsyas
78 37.75,37.25,0 Caystru-pedion ...goes toward Mysia. [11] Thence he marched three stages, thirty parasangs, to Caystru-pedion,24 an inhabited city. There he remained five days. At this time he was owing...
Caystru-pedion
79 32.329506,36.236294,0 Cilicians ...[12] At this juncture arrived Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, the king25 of the Cilicians, coming to visit Cyrus, and the story was that she gave him a large sum of...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Cappadocia ...he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty it is to muster...
Cappadocia
79 37.5,37.5,0 Tigris ...to the wall of Media,62 [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river; they are four in number, each a plethrum wide and exceedingly deep, and...
Tigris
73 44.79467829666667,34.52908255,0 Dana ...army Cyrus marched through Cappadocia four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Dana, an inhabited city, large and prosperous. There they remained three days; and...
Dana
79 34.564162,37.520926,0 Ceramon-agora ...Thence he marched two stages, twelve parasangs, to the inhabited city of Ceramon-agora,23 the last Phrygian city as one goes toward Mysia. [11] Thence he marched...
Ceramon-agora
75 Thracians ...and the horsemen, of which he had in his army more than forty, most of them Thracians, advanced upon Menon's troops; the result was that these and Menon himself were...
Thracians
78 23.129408,40.288041,0 Persians ...as the best of them all in all respects. [3] For all the sons of the noblest Persians are educated at the King's court. There one may learn discretion and...
Persians
79 Ionia ...to the Lacedaemonians30 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos. [22] At any rate31 Cyrus climbed the...
Ionia
72 Arcadian ...at home and send him the army which he had; and he sent word to Xenias the Arcadian, who commanded for him the mercenary force in the cities,11 to come with his...
Arcadian
77 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Arcadian ...time came also Sosis the Syracusan with three hundred hoplites and Agias the Arcadian with a thousand hoplites. And here Cyrus held a review and made an enumeration...
Arcadian
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Lacedaemonian ...arrived to meet Cyrus, thirty-five in number, with Pythagoras the Lacedaemonian as admiral in command of them. They had been guided from Ephesus to Issus by...
Lacedaemonian
68 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Cilicians ...should forestall them—“and we have in our possession,” he said, “many of these Cilicians and much of their property that we have seized as plunder.” Such were the words...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Ceramon-agora ...Thence he marched two stages, twelve parasangs, to the inhabited city of Ceramon-agora,23 the last Phrygian city as one goes toward Mysia. [11] Thence he marched...
Ceramon-agora
75 Maeander ...through Lydia three stages,13 a distance of twenty-two parasangs,14 to the Maeander river. The width of this river was two plethra,15 and there was a bridge over...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Maeander ...himself and his horses exercise. Through the middle of this park flows the Maeander river; its sources are beneath the palace, and it flows through the city of...
Maeander
77 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Colossae ...he marched through Phrygia one stage, a distance of eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited16 city, prosperous and large. There he remained seven days; and...
Colossae
74 29.2598,37.78671,0 Charmande ...in the course of these desert marches was a large and prosperous city named Charmande, and here the soldiers made purchases of provisions, crossing the river on...
Charmande
78 Celaenae ...famous battle,20 built the palace just mentioned and likewise the citadel of Celaenae. Here Cyrus remained thirty days; and Clearchus, the Lacedaemonian exile...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Syracusan ...did not lead the army up the hill, but halted at its foot and sent Lycius the Syracusan and another man to the summit, directing them to observe what was beyond the...
Syracusan
80 15.29382,37.05963,0 Persians ...went into the battle with his head unprotected. [In fact, it is said of the Persians in general that they venture all the perils of war with their heads...
Persians
78 Persians ...who was related to the King by birth and was reckoned among the best of the Persians in matters of war, devised a plot against Cyrus—in fact, he had made war upon...
Persians
78 Ionian ...sent to the King and urged, on the ground that he was his brother, that these Ionian cities should be given to him instead of remaining under the rule of...
Ionian
80 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Thracians ...but I proceeded to expend it on you. [4] First I went to war with the Thracians, and for the sake of Greece I inflicted punishment upon them with your aid...
Thracians
72 23.129408,40.288041,0 Ionian ...on the plea that Tissaphernes had designs upon their cities. For, in fact, the Ionian cities had originally belonged to Tissaphernes, by gift of the King,6 but at...
Ionian
81 27.36601213333333,38.258572855555556,0 Maeander ...Marsyas river; the Marsyas also flows through the city, and empties into the Maeander, and its width is twenty-five feet. It was here, according to the story, that...
Maeander
79 27.4713446,37.6220196,0 Phrygia ...when he was sent down72 by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty...
Phrygia
71 32.5,37.5,0 Miletus ...their own accord chose Cyrus rather than Tissaphernes, with the exception of Miletus;74 and the reason why the Milesians feared him was, that he would not prove...
Miletus
79 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages...
Phrygia
74 32.5,37.5,0 Miletus ...the citadels. [2] He likewise summoned the troops which were besieging Miletus, and urged the Milesian exiles to take the field with him, promising them that...
Miletus
73 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Castolus ...had also appointed him commander of all the forces that muster in the plain of Castolus.2 Cyrus accordingly went up3 to his father, taking with him Tissaphernes as a...
Castolus
81 28.75,38.75,0 Euphrates ...exceedingly deep, and grain-carrying ships ply in them; they empty into the Euphrates and are a parsang apart, and there are bridges over them.] and alongside the...
Euphrates
78 40.93640094444444,34.74942377777777,0 Boeotian ...secretly maintained for him. [11] Furthermore, Cyrus directed Proxenus the Boeotian, who was a friend of his, to come to him with as many men as he could get...
Boeotian
78 22.840365,38.493361,0 Tarsus ...numbered a hundred hoplites. [26] And when the rest of Menon's troops reached Tarsus, in their anger over the loss of their comrades they plundered thoroughly, not...
Tarsus
80 34.89277,36.91766,0 Amphipolis ...as they went through. The commander of the Greek peltasts was Episthenes of Amphipolis, and it was said that he proved himself a sagacious man. [8] At any rate, after...
Amphipolis
78 23.840418,40.818876,0 Tarsus ...he marched through this plain four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Tarsus,32 a large and prosperous city of Cilicia, where the palace of Syennesis, the...
Tarsus
71 34.89277,36.91766,0 Milesian ...He likewise summoned the troops which were besieging Miletus, and urged the Milesian exiles to take the field with him, promising them that, if he should...
Milesian
78 27.2774885,37.5292362,0 Hellespont ...of operations, proceeded to make war upon the Thracians who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.9 Consequently, the Hellespontine cities of their...
Hellespont
79 26.41271,40.15552,0 Celaenae ...famous battle,20 built the palace just mentioned and likewise the citadel of Celaenae. Here Cyrus remained thirty days; and Clearchus, the Lacedaemonian exile...
Celaenae
79 30.16557,38.065,0 Phocaean ...plunder of various sorts in abundance, while in particular he captured the Phocaean woman, Cyrus' concubine, who, by all accounts, was clever and beautiful. [3]...
Phocaean
77 26.75261,38.6684,0 Cilician ...money; at any rate, Cyrus paid the troops at that time four months' wages. The Cilician queen was attended by a body-guard of Cilicians and Aspendians; and people said...
Cilician
81 35.75,38.25,0 Cilician ...companies; then he inspected the Greeks, driving past them in a chariot, the Cilician queen in a carriage. And the Greeks all had helmets of bronze, crimson tunics...
Cilician
79 35.75,38.25,0 Cilician ...and Syria. These Gates consisted of two walls; the one on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by Syennesis and a garrison of Cilicians, while the one on the...
Cilician
75 35.75,38.25,0 Cilician ...to Tyriaeum, an inhabited city. There he remained three days. And the Cilician queen, as the report ran, asked Cyrus to exhibit his army to her; such an...
Cilician
72 35.75,38.25,0 Babylonia ...and no grave of his was ever seen. 7. From there Cyrus marched through Babylonia three stages, twelve parasangs. On the third stage he held a review of the...
Babylonia
74 44.5,32.5,0 Celaenae ...and Olynthians. [7] Thence he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, an inhabited city of Phrygia, large and prosperous. There Cyrus had a palace...
Celaenae
75 30.16557,38.065,0 Greeks ...a review of the Greeks and the barbarians on the plain. [15] He ordered the Greeks to form their lines and take their positions just as they were accustomed to do...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...driving past them in a chariot, the Cilician queen in a carriage. And the Greeks all had helmets of bronze, crimson tunics, and greaves, and carried their...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...formed in troops and their infantry in companies; then he inspected the Greeks, driving past them in a chariot, the Cilician queen in a carriage. And the...
Greeks
74 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...say that I, after leading Greeks into the land of the barbarians, betrayed the Greeks and chose the friendship of the barbarians; [6] nay, since you do not care to...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...suffer whatever I must. And never shall any man say that I, after leading Greeks into the land of the barbarians, betrayed the Greeks and chose the friendship...
Greeks
76 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in silver when they reached Babylon and their pay in full until he brought the Greeks back to Ionia again.50 By these promises the greater part of the Greek army was...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...troops. What, then, do I direct you to do? At this moment Cyrus is begging the Greeks to follow him against the King; my own plan, then, is that you should cross the...
Greeks
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...far more eager themselves and carried the news away with them to the other Greeks. Then some of the others also sought Cyrus' presence, demanding to know what...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...this time, when the troops were marshalled under arms,58 the number of the Greeks was found to be ten thousand four hundred hoplites, and two thousand five...
Greeks
77 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...all ready for battle. [2] Then ensued great confusion; for the thought of the Greeks, and of all the rest in fact, was that he would fall upon them immediately...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...length the opposing lines were not three or four stadia apart, and then the Greeks struck up the paean and began to advance against the enemy. [18] And when, as...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...persons or property, they saved all alike. [4] At this time the King and the Greeks were distant from one another about thirty stadia, the Greeks pursuing the...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...after being seized by the King's men made her escape, lightly clad, to some Greeks who had chanced to be standing guard amid the baggage train and, forming...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...train, and the King, on the other hand, heard from Tissaphernes that the Greeks were victorious over the division opposite them and had gone on ahead in...
Greeks
75 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...in full force to the camp, for the purpose of lending aid. [6] Meanwhile the Greeks saw the King advancing again, as it seemed, from their rear, and they...
Greeks
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...left wing, and in his return picked up not only those who had deserted to the Greeks during the battle, but also Tissaphernes and his troops. [7] For Tissaphernes...
Greeks
80 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...to await the attack, but took to flight when at a greater distance from the Greeks than they were the first time. [12] The Greeks pursued as far as a certain...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greeks ...the King and his men had now pillaged. [19] The result was that most of the Greeks had no dinner; and they had had no breakfast, either, for the King had appeared...
Greeks
78 22.5,37.5,0 Ionia ...to the Lacedaemonians30 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos. [22] At any rate31 Cyrus climbed the...
Ionia
72 Cilicia ...King. [4] Thence he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria. These Gates consisted of two walls; the one on the hither, or...
Cilicia
79 35.75,38.25,0 Cilicia ...there he marched two stages, fifteen parasangs, to Issus, the last city in Cilicia, a place situated on the sea, and large and prosperous. [2] There they remained...
Cilicia
77 35.75,38.25,0 Tarsus ...in Soli and Issus.33 [25] Now Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, had reached Tarsus five days ahead of Cyrus, but in the course of her passage over the mountains...
Tarsus
76 34.89277,36.91766,0 Greek ...capable soldiers and should feel kindly toward him. [6] Lastly, as regards his Greek force, he proceeded to collect it with the utmost secrecy, so that he might...
Greek
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...plunged through the lines of their own troops, others, however, through the Greek lines, but without charioteers. And whenever the Greeks saw them coming, they...
Greek
78 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...feet or hands or eyes; thus in Cyrus' province it became possible for either Greek or barbarian, provided he were guilty of no wrongdoing, to travel fearlessly...
Greek
79 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...he honoured. Hence, as I at least conclude from what comes to my ears, no man, Greek or barbarian, has ever been loved by a greater number of people. [29] Here is a...
Greek
81 22.5,37.5,0 Greek ...to flight in the first encounter, but had charged along the river through the Greek peltasts77; he did not kill anyone in his passage, but the Greeks, after...
Greek
80 22.5,37.5,0 Lycaonia ...last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages, thirty parasangs. This country he gave over to the Greeks to...
Lycaonia
80 32.5,37.5,0 Dana ...army Cyrus marched through Cappadocia four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Dana, an inhabited city, large and prosperous. There they remained three days; and...
Dana
79 Arcadian ...were lying at anchor there. There he remained seven days; [7] and Xenias the Arcadian and Pasion the Megarian embarked upon a ship, put on board their most valuable...
Arcadian
79 22.165323097346306,37.567419268449626,0 Tyriaeum ...water of the spring.26 [14] Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to Tyriaeum, an inhabited city. There he remained three days. And the Cilician queen, as...
Tyriaeum
78 31.91389,38.27917,0 Soli ...tavern-keepers; and there remained also those who dwelt on the sea-coast, in Soli and Issus.33 [25] Now Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, had reached Tarsus five...
Soli
79 Phrygia ...he marched three stages, twenty parasangs, to Iconium, the last city of Phrygia. There he remained three days. Thence he marched through Lycaonia five stages...
Phrygia
74 32.5,37.5,0 Persian ...took their time with the work; accordingly, as if in anger, he directed the Persian nobles who accompanied him to take a hand in hurrying on the wagons. And then...
Persian
78 Sardis ...he set about making counter-preparations. Cyrus was now setting forth from Sardis with the troops I have mentioned; and he marched through Lydia three stages,13...
Sardis
78 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...force that had been engaged in besieging Miletus. All these came to Cyrus at Sardis. [4] Meanwhile Tissaphernes had taken note of these proceedings and come to...
Sardis
79 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were hoplites to the number of four...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Sardis ...presented themselves, under arms, at Sardis. [3] Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were hoplites to the number of four...
Sardis
77 28.040278,38.488333,0 Ambraciot ...were to be seen in great numbers. [18] Then Cyrus summoned Silanus, his Ambraciot soothsayer, and gave him three thousand darics; for on the eleventh day before...
Ambraciot
74 20.95316,39.04107,0 Cappadocia ...Menon himself commanding them. With the rest of the army Cyrus marched through Cappadocia four stages, twenty-five parasangs, to Dana, an inhabited city, large and...
Cappadocia
81 37.5,37.5,0 Cilicia ...to the Lacedaemonians30 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos. [22] At any rate31 Cyrus climbed the mountains...
Cilicia
81 35.75,38.25,0 Greece ...[14] One man in particular, pretending to be in a hurry to proceed back to Greece with all speed, proposed that they should choose other generals as quickly as...
Greece
77 22.5,37.5,0 Media ...through the plain for a distance of twelve parasangs, reaching to the wall of Media,62 [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river; they are four...
Media
80 Aspendians ...wages. The Cilician queen was attended by a body-guard of Cilicians and Aspendians; and people said that Cyrus had intimate relations with the queen. [13] Thence...
Aspendians
74 31.172222,36.938889,0 Cilicians ...to occupy the mountain heights in advance, in order that neither Cyrus nor the Cilicians should forestall them—“and we have in our possession,” he said, “many of these...
Cilicians
81 33.25,36.25,0 Cilicians ...time four months' wages. The Cilician queen was attended by a body-guard of Cilicians and Aspendians; and people said that Cyrus had intimate relations with the...
Cilicians
78 33.25,36.25,0 Ionia ...they reached Babylon and their pay in full until he brought the Greeks back to Ionia again.50 By these promises the greater part of the Greek army was...
Ionia
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