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LIBRI XIV. XXXI

Cap. 23. Proelium inter Cyrum et Artaxerxem commissum. Graeci vincunt. Cyrus Artaxerxem vulnerat, in cuius locum Tissaphernes succedit. Cyrus a quodam Persa occiditur. 24. Aridaei copiae se recipiunt, barbari victores a Graecis fugantur. Numerus caesorum. 25. Artaxerxes ob Cyri mortem victoriam iactans, per Phalinum Graecos arma tradere iubet. Recusant Graeci, et duce Clearcho reditum parant. 26. Rex Graecos tardius progredientes assequitur. Initis indutiis pacatum per terras regias transitum impetrant Graeci, rex Babylonem regreditur. Tissaphernes, cui rex filiam collocavit, denuo insequitur Graecos, eorumque duces turpi fraude capit, multos milites obtruncat. 27. Accepto cladis nuntio Graeci Chirisophum imperatorem creant et hostium incursum ferocissime repellunt. Clearchus ceterique duces capti ad regem missi trucidantur. Graecorum iter per montes Carduchorum usque in Armeniam. 28. In Armeniae montibus abducti a via atque fame et frigore gravissime afflicti, amissis multis suorum aegre tandem vicos inveniunt, qui omni victus genere eos recreant. 29. Graeci Phasin fluvium transgressi per Chaorum, Phasianorum, Chaldaeorum, Scutinorum regiones in Chenium montem evadunt, unde ingenti gaudio mare prospiciunt. Macronum regionem emensi ad Colchos perveniunt. 30. Gustato eius regionis melle multi Graecorum in insaniam incidunt. Trapezunte benigno hospitio excepti triginta dies subsistunt. Chirisophus Byzantium missus ad comparandas naves cum diutius remoraretur, Cerasuntem petunt. Hinc profecti gentem Mossynoecorum adeunt, pugna atrocissima subigendam. 31. Graeci Cotyora assecuti ab Heracleensibus et Sinopensibus navigiis adiuvantur. Rediit Chirisophus sine navibus. Heracleam, et inde in peninsulam Acherusiam navibus vecti, tandem Chrysopolin pervenerunt. 32. Athenis triginta tyranni exilio et caede in cives grassantur. Thrasybulus Phylam occupat. Tyranni in eum educunt exercitum civesque Piraeo conclusos tenent. Thrasybulum frustra sibi conciliare conati Lacedaemonios in auxilium vocant. 33. Thrasybulus tyrannis proelio victis Piraeo potitur. Athenienses tyrannos urbe expellunt et Pausaniae opera pristinam libertatem recuperant.

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BOOK XIV. XXXI

Ch. 23. The battle between Cyrus and Artaxerxes is joined. The Greeks are victorious. Cyrus wounds Artaxerxes; Tissaphernes succeeds in his place. Cyrus is slain by a certain Persian. 24. The forces of Ariaeus withdraw; the victorious barbarians are put to flight by the Greeks. The number of the slain. 25. Artaxerxes, boasting of victory because of Cyrus' death, orders the Greeks through Phalinus to hand over their arms. The Greeks refuse, and under the leadership of Clearchus prepare their return. 26. The king overtakes the Greeks as they are advancing more slowly. Having entered into a truce, the Greeks obtain a peaceful passage through the royal lands; the king returns to Babylon. Tissaphernes, to whom the king gave his daughter in marriage, again pursues the Greeks and captures their commanders by shameful treachery, and slays many soldiers. 27. On receiving news of the disaster, the Greeks elect Chirisophus as commander and most fiercely repel the enemy's attack. Clearchus and the other captured commanders are sent to the king and put to death. The march of the Greeks through the mountains of the Carduchians as far as Armenia. 28. Led astray from the path in the mountains of Armenia and grievously afflicted by hunger and cold, after losing many of their men they finally with difficulty find villages which refresh them with every kind of sustenance. 29. The Greeks, having crossed the river Phasis, pass through the regions of the Chares, Phasians, Chaldaeans, and Scythinians, and emerge onto Mount Chenium, from where they behold the sea with immense joy. Having traversed the region of the Macronians, they reach the Colchians. 30. Having tasted the honey of that region, many of the Greeks fall into madness. Received with kind hospitality at Trapezus, they halt for thirty days. When Chirisophus, sent to Byzantium to procure ships, delayed longer, they head for Cerasus. Setting out from there, they approach the tribe of the Mossynoeci, who had to be subdued in a most atrocious battle. 31. The Greeks, having reached Cotyora, are aided with ships by the Heracleots and Sinopeans. Chirisophus returned without ships. Sailing to Heraclea, and thence to the Acherusian peninsula, they finally arrived at Chrysopolis. 32. At Athens, the Thirty Tyrants rage against the citizens with exile and slaughter. Thrasybulus occupies Phyle. The Tyrants lead out an army against him and hold the citizens confined in Piraeus. Having tried in vain to win Thrasybulus over to themselves, they summon the Lacedaemonians to their aid. 33. Thrasybulus, having defeated the tyrants in battle, gains possession of Piraeus. The Athenians expel the tyrants from the city and, through the efforts of Pausanias, recover their former freedom.