The
 MSS. here prefix the following summary of the preceding
 narrative. [The preceding narrative has described how a
 Greek force was collected for Cyrus at the time
 when he was planning an expedition against his brother Artaxerxes,
 what events took place during the upward march, how the battle was
 fought, how Cyrus met his death, and how the
 Greeks returned to their camp and lay down to rest, supposing that
 they were victorious at all points and that
 Cyrus was alive.] At daybreak the generals came
 together, and they wondered that Cyrus neither
 sent anyone else to tell them what to do nor appeared himself. They
 resolved, accordingly, to pack up what they had, arm themselves, and
 push forward until they should join forces with
 Cyrus . When they were on the point of setting out, and just as the sun was
 rising, came Procles, the ruler of Teuthrania, a descendant of
 Damaratus, A king of Sparta who
 was deposed in 491 B.C., fled to
 Persia , and
 afterwards accompanied Xerxes in his expedition against
 Greece . Teuthrania
 (in western Asia Minor )
 made part of the territory given him by Xerxes as a reward for
 this service. the Laconian, and with him Glus, the son of
 Tamos. They reported that Cyrus was dead, and
 that Ariaeus had fled and was now, along with the rest of the
 barbarians, at the stopping-place from which they had set out on the
 preceding day; further, he sent word that he and his troops were
 that day waiting for the Greeks, on the chance that they intended to
 join them, but on the next day, so Ariaeus said, he should set out
 on the return journey for Ionia , whence he had come. The generals upon hearing this message, and the rest of the Greeks as
 they learned of it, were greatly distressed. Clearchus, however,
 said: Well, would that
 Cyrus were alive! but since he is dead,
 carry back word to Ariaeus that, for our part, we have defeated
 the King, that we have no enemy left, as you see, to fight with,
 and that if you had not come, we should now be marching against
 the King. And we promise Ariaeus that, if he will come here, we
 will set him upon the royal throne; for to those who are
 victorious in battle belongs also the right to rule. With these words he sent back the messengers, sending with them
 Cheirisophus the Laconian and Menon the Thessalian; for this was
 Menon’s own wish, inasmuch as he was an intimate and guest-friend of
 Ariaeus.