Then Xenophon, The author. He always
 speaks of himself in the third person. an Athenian,
 seeing him from the Greek army, approached so as to meet him and
 asked if he had any orders to give; and Cyrus 
 pulled up his horse and bade Xenophon tell everybody that the
 sacrificial victims and omens were all favourable. While saying this he heard a noise running through the ranks, and
 asked what the noise was. Xenophon replied that the watchword was
 now passing along for the second time. i.e. back again, from the last man to the
 first. And Cyrus wondered who had
 given it out, and asked what the watchword was. Xenophon replied
 Zeus Saviour and Victory. And upon hearing this Cyrus said, Well, I accept it, and so let it be. After
 he had said these words he rode back to his own position. At 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. And when, as they proceeded, a part of the phalanx billowed out,
 those who were thus left behind began to run; at the same moment
 they all set up the sort of war-cry which they raise to
 Enyalius, i.e. Ares. and
 all alike began running. It is also reported that some of them
 clashed their shields against their spears, thereby frightening the
 enemy’s horses. 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 at a headlong pace, but to keep
 their ranks in the pursuit.