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 HARSHNESS OF ARISTARCHUS. 165 with the greatest speed. 1 Perhaps it would not have been sale for Xenophon to disobey this order, under any circumstances. But the idea of acting with the army in Asia against Pharna- bazus, under Lacedsemonian sanction, was probably very accept- able to him. He hastened across to the army, who welcomed his return with joy, and gladly embraced the proposal of crossing to Asia, which was a great improvement upon their forlorn and destitute condition. He accordingly conducted them to Perinthus, and encamped under the walls of the town ; refusing, in his way through Selymbria, a second proposition from Seuthes to engage the services of the army. While Xenophon was exerting himself to procure transports for the passage of the army at Perinthus, Aristarchus the new harmost arrived there with two triremes from Byzantium. It seems that not only Byzantium, but also both Perinthus and Selymbria, were comprised in his government as harmost. On first reaching Byzantium to supersede Kleander, he found there no less than four hundred of the Cyreians, chiefly sick and wounded; whom Kleander, in spite of the ill-will of Anaxibius, had not only refused to sell into slavery, but had billeted upon the citizens, and tended with soh'citude ; so much did his good feeling towards Xen- ophon and towards the army now come into play. We read with indignation that Aristarchus, immediately on reaching Byzantium to supersede him, was not even contented with sending these four hundred men out of the town ; but seized them, Greeks, citizens, and soldiers as they were, and sold them all into slavery .2 1 Xen. Anab. vii, 2, 8-25. 'E* TOVTOV 6tj b 'Avcii/jStof, KtiAeuaf Sevo^uira, Kehevei it U.GTJ TEX V V Kal fi7]%avfi ftl. Evaai siri rd arpuTEV/ia ug raptor a, KOI OVVE- %EIV TE TO CTpaTEVfta Kai avvadpoifciv TUV 6iECira.pfj.ivuv uf uv nJiEiarov; i, Kai napayayovTa elf TTJV TLepiv&ov 6ia(3ifld&tv slf TJJV 'A.aiav on not Siduaiv avrC) rpiaKovropov, Kai eTTiaTohijv Kai avdpa avpir- KE^svaovra roi)f TiepLvdiovg eif raptor a EsvotfiuvTa ^poni^ai rolf tTTTroif eni TO aTpu-ufj.a. The vehement interest which Anaxibius took in this new project is marked by the strength of Xenop kon's language ; extreme celerity is enjoined three several times. 6iroGov<; uv evpoL EV 'BvavTi< ! > ruv Kvpov arparLUTuv vTroAfPuE^uevowf, diro- ft 6s KXtavfiooc oi'deva ftreirpuKEi, a/l/lrt Kai rotx Kaftvyvraf t&epa>
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