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Etext prepared by John Bickers, [email protected].

AGESILAUS
By Xenophon
Translation by H. G. Dakyns

Dedicated To Rev. B. Jowett, M.A. Master of Balliol College Regius
Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates.
He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta
gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years
before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354

B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who
enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the
ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role.
This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C.

PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there
is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The
Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1
The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the
Lacedaemonians 2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English
using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical
marks have been lost.

End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Agesilaus

ANABASIS
BY
XENOPHON

ANABASIS

BOOK I

Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes,
and 1 the younger Cyrus. Now, as Darius lay sick and felt that the end
of life drew near, he wished both his sons to be with him. The elder, as
it chanced, was already there, but Cyrus he must needs send for from
the province over which he had made him satrap, having appointed him
general moreover of all the forces that muster in the plain of the
Castolus. Thus Cyrus went up, taking with him Tissaphernes as his
friend, and accompanied also by a body of Hellenes, three hundred
heavy armed men, under the command of Xenias the Parrhasian[1].
[1] Parrhasia, a district and town in the south-west of Arcadia.
Now when Darius was dead, and Artaxerxes was established in the
kingdom, Tissaphernes brought slanderous accusations against Cyrus
before his brother, the king, of harbouring designs against him. And
Artaxerxes, listening to the words of Tissaphernes, laid hands upon
Cyrus, desiring to put him to death; but his mother made intercession
for him, and sent him back again in safety to his province. He then,
having so escaped through peril and dishonour, fell to considering, not
only how he might avoid ever again being in his brother's power, but
how, if possible, he might become king in his stead. Parysatis, his
mother, was his first resource; for she had more love for Cyrus than for
Artaxerxes upon his throne. Moreover Cyrus's behaviour towards all
who came to him from the king's court was such that, when he sent
them away again, they were better friends to himself than to 5 the king
his brother. Nor did he neglect the barbarians in his own service; but
trained them, at once to be capable as warriors and devoted adherents
of himself. Lastly, he began collecting his Hellenic armament, but with
the utmost secrecy, so that he might take the king as far as might be at
unawares.

The manner in which he contrived the levying of the troops was as
follows: First, he sent orders to the commandants of garrisons in the
cities (so held by him), bidding them to get together as large a body of
picked Peloponnesian troops as they severally were able, on the plea
that Tissaphernes was plotting against their cities; and truly these cities
of Ionia had originally belonged to Tissaphernes, being given to him by
the king; but at