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 124 HISTORY OF GREECE. probably have overtopped Sinope herself. There -was no restrain- ing cause to reckon upon, except the general Hellenic sympathies and education of the Cyreian army ; and what ^ as of not less im- portance, the fact that they were not mercenary soldiers by perma- nent profession, such as became so formidably multiplied in Greece during the next generation, but established citizens who had come out on a special service under Cyrus, with the full intention, after a year of lucrative enterprise, to return to their homes and families. 1 We shall find such gravitation towards home steadily operative throughout the future proceedings of the army. But at the moment when they first emerged from the mountains, no one could be sure that it would be so. There was ample ground for uneasiness among the Euxine Greeks, especially the Sinopians, whose supremacy had never before been endangered. An undisturbed repose of thirty days enabled the Cyreians to recover from their fatigues, to talk over their past dangers, and to take pride in the anticipated effect which their unparalleled achievement could not fail to produce in Greece. Having dis- charged their vows and celebrated their festival to the gods, they held an assembly to discuss their future proceedings ; when a Thu- rian soldier, named Antileon, exclaimed, " Comrades, I am already tired of packing up, marching, running, carrying arms, fall- ing into line, keeping watch, and fighting. Now that we have the sea here before us, I desire to be relieved from all these toils, to Bail the rest of the way, and to arrive in Greece outstretched and 1 Xen. Anab. vi, 2, 8. Tuv -yap arpariuTuv ol TT?.OTO{ fyaav oil anuvei f3iov ^/CTreTrlewcoref eirl ravrijv T?)V [iiadoopuv, uX^a TTJV Kvpov aperijv uKovvref, ol fiev ical avdpac dyovrec, ol 6e Kal TrpoaavrihuKOTes ^p^uara, Kal TOVTUV Srepoi unode^paKOTCf irarepaf Kal fifjrepac, ol 6e Kal TEKVO /cara/Ujrotref, a>f %pfjpaTa avrolf KTTjad- (levot. 7/^ovre^ TTU^IV, UKOVOVTE; Kal roiif aA^.ovf rot)f napa Kvpy TroAAti Kal uya'&u irpaTTEiv. TOIOVTOI ovv OVTEQ tnodovv elf TTJV 'EA/lada au&o-dai. This statement respecting the position of most of the soldiers is more authentic, as well as less disparaging, than that of Isokrates (Orat. iv, Pan- egyr. s. 170). In another oration, composed about fifty years after the Cyreian expe- dition, Isokrates notices the large premiums which it had been formerly necessary to give to those who brought together mercenary soldiers, over and above the pay to the soldiers themselves (Isokrates, Orat. v. ad Philipp. 8.112); as contrasted with the over-multiplication of unemployed merce- naries during his own later time (Ibid. s. 142 seq.)