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 150 HISTORY OF GREECE. senior captain of the earlier body next desired Xenophon to repeat to this larger body the topics upon which he had just before been insisting. Xenophon obeyed, enlarging yet more emphatically oil the situation, perilous, yet not without hope, on the proper measures to be taken, and especially on the necessity that they, the chief officers remaining, should put themselves forward promi- nently, first fix upon effective commanders, then afterwards submit the names to be confirmed by the army, accompanied with suitable exhortations and encouragement. His speech was applauded anc welcomed, especially by the Lacedaemonian general Cheirisophus who had joined Cyrus with a body of seven hundred hoplites a Issus in Kilikia. Cheirisophus urged the captains to retire forth with, and agree upon other commanders instead of the four who had been seized ; after which the herald must be summoned, and the entire body of soldiers convened without delay. Accordingly Timasion of Dardanus was chosen instead of Klearchus ; Xan- thikles in place of Sokrates ; Kleanor hi place of Agias ; Philesiua in place of Menon ; and Xenophon instead of Proxenus. 1 The captains, who had served under each of the departed generals, separately chose a successor to the captain thus promoted. It is to be recollected that the five now chosen were not the only generala hi the camp ; thus for example, Cheirisophus had the command of his own separate division, and there may have been one or two others similarly placed. But it was now necessary for all the gene- rals to form a Board and act hi concert. At daybreak the newly constituted Board of generals placed proper outposts in advance, and then convened the army in gene- ral assembly, in order that the new appointments might be submit- ted and confirmed. As soon as this had been done, probably on the proposition of Cheirisophus (who had been in command before), that general addressed a few words of exhortation and encourage- ment to the soldiers. He was followed by Kleanor, who delivered, with the like brevity, an earnest protest against the perfidy of Tis- saphernes and Ariaeus. Both of them left to Xenophon the task, alike important and arduous at this moment of despondency, of set ting forth the case at length, working up the feelings of the soldiers to that pitch of resolution which the emergency required, 1 Xen. Anab. iii, 1, 36-46.