When, however, the Greeks learned that the King and his forces were
 in their baggage 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 pursuit, then the King
 proceeded to gather his troops together and form them in line of
 battle, and Clearchus called Proxenus (for he was nearest him in the
 line) and took counsel with him as to whether they should send a
 detachment or go in full force to the camp, for the purpose of
 lending aid. Meanwhile the Greeks saw the King advancing again, as it seemed, from
 their rear, and they accordingly countermarched and made ready to
 meet his attack in case he should advance in that direction The Greeks had advanced straight
 forward from their position on the right wing and the King
 straight forward from his centre (which was beyond the left wing
 of Cyru s’ entire, i.e. Greek and barbarian,
 army); hence the two had passed by one another at a considerable
 distance. The question now was, whether the King on his return
 march would move obliquely, so as to meet the Greeks, or would
 follow the same route by which he advanced, thus keeping clear
 of them again. ; the King, however, did not do so, but
 returned by the same route he had followed before, when he passed
 outside of Cyru s’ 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. For Tissaphernes had not taken to flight in the first encounter, but
 had charged along the river through the Greek peltasts See Xen.
 Anab. 1.8.4-5 . ; 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 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 sagacious man. At any rate, after Tissaphernes had thus come off with 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 more, they were proceeding together. When they were over against the left
 wing of the Greeks, At this point
 the fronts of the two armies—which were facing in opposite
 directions, and, further, each in the direction opposite to that
 which it took in the first encounter—were in approximately the
 same straight line. It should be noted that Xenophon means by the left wing of the Greeks that which had
 been the left wing in the original formation, but had now become
 the right. the latter conceived the fear that they might
 advance against that wing and, by outflanking them on both sides,
 cut them to pieces; they thought it best, therefore, to draw the
 wing back and get the river in their rear. The Greek line was now, as in the beginning, at
 right angles to the Euphrates . The movement here described would
 (if executed) have made it parallel to the river, the latter
 serving as a defence in the rear.