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 154 HISTOKY OF GREECE. and plunder which they had collected. Unhappily for them, the Lacedaemonian admiral Anaxibius was now at Byzantium, so that their friend Kleander was under his superior command. And Pharnabazus, the Persian satrap of the north-western regions of Asia Minor, becoming much alarmed lest they should invade his satrapy, despatched a private message to Anaxibius ; whom he prevailed upon, by promise of large presents, to transport the army forthwith across to the European side of the Bosphorus. 1 Accordingly, Anaxibius, sending for the generals and the lochages across to Byzantium, invited the army to cross, and gave them his assurance that as soon as the soldiers should be in Europe, he would provide pay for them. The other officers told him that they would return with this message and take the sense of the army ; but Xenophon, on his own account, said that he should not return ; that he should now retire from the army, and sail away from Byzantium. It was only on the pressing instance of Anaxibius that he was in- duced to go back to Chrysopolis and conduct the army across ; on the understanding that he should depart immediately afterwards. Here at Byzantium, he received his first communication from the Thracian prince Seuthes ; who sent Medosades to offer him a reward if he would bring the army across. Xenophon replied that the army would cross ; that no reward from Seuthes was needful to bring about that movement ; but that he himself was about to depart, leaving the command in other hands. In point of fact, the whole army crossed with little delay, landed in Europe, and found themselves within the walls of Byzantium. 2 Xenophon, who had come along with them, paid a visit shortly afterwards to his friend the hannost Kleander, and took leave of him as about to depart immediately. But Kleander told him that he must not think of departing until the army was out of the city, and that he would be held responsible if they stayed. In truth Kleander was very up- easy so long as the soldiers were within the walls, and was well aware that it might be no easy matter to induce them to go away. ' Xen. Anab. vii, 1, 2. H.epl>af irpbf J A.va^ij3iov TOV vaiap%ov, tdelro dta* BiBuaai TO crpurevfia in rfc 'Afftaf, Kal iimaxveiTo navra m ir/asiv avrtj oaa Seat. Compare vii, 2, 7, when Anaxibius demanded in vain the fulfilment of this promise.
 * Xen. Anab. vii, 1, 5-7.