At this time, when the troops were
 marshalled under arms, i.e. in the
 review mentioned in 1. the number of the Greeks was found
 to be ten thousand four hundred hoplites, and two thousand five
 hundred peltasts, There is a
 discrepancy, as yet unexplained, between these numbers and those
 previously given. cp. Xen. Anab.
 1.2.9 and note; also Xen.
 Anab. 1.2.25 and Xen.
 Anab. 1.4.3 . while the number of the
 barbarians under Cyrus was one hundred thousand
 and there were about twenty scythe-bearing chariots. The enemy, it was reported, numbered one million two hundred
 thousand The number is probably
 overstated. Ctesias, the King’s Greek physician (see viii. 26),
 is said by Plutarch ( Artax. 13) to have given it
 as 400,000. and had two hundred scythe-bearing chariots;
 besides, there was a troop of six thousand horsemen, under the
 command of Artagerses, which was stationed in front of the King
 himself. And the King’s army had four commanders, each at the head of three
 hundred thousand men, namely, Abrocomas, Tissaphernes, Gobryas, and
 Arbaces. But of the forces just enumerated only nine hundred
 thousand, with one hundred and fifty scythe-bearing chariots, were
 present at the battle; for Abrocomas, marching from Phoenicia , arrived five days too
 late for the engagement. Such were the reports brought to Cyrus by those
 who deserted from the Great King before the battle, and after the
 battle identical reports were made by the prisoners taken
 thereafter. From 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 day the King would come to an engagement; for about midway of
 this day’s march there was a deep trench, five fathoms ὀργυά = the reach of the outstretched arms (cp.
 ὀρέγω ), or, as an exact
 unit of measurement, 6 Greek feet = 5 ft. 10 in. English
 measure. in width and three fathoms in depth.