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 TRUCE WITH PHARNABAZUS. 215 pline of the army. especially upon the Cyreians, who had tasted the discomfort of irregular pay and poverty. " And where am I to live ? " asked Meidias, who found himself turned out of the house of Mania. " In your rightful place of abode, to be sure (replied Derkyllidas) ; in your native town Skepsis, and in your paternal house. 1 " What became of the as- sassin afterwards, we do not hear. But it is satisfactory to find that he did not reap the anticipated reward of his crime ; the fruits of which were an important advantage to Derkyllidas and his army, and a still more important blessing to the Greek cities which had been governed by Mania, enfranchisement and autonomy. Tliis rapid, easy, and skilfully managed exploit, the capture of nine towns in eight days, is all which Xenophon mentions aa achieved by Derkyllidas during the summer. Having acquired pay for so many months, perhaps the soldiers may have been dis- posed to rest until it was spent. But as winter approached, it became necessary to find winter quarters, without incurring the reproach which had fallen upon Thimbron of consuming the sub- stance of allies. Fearing, however, that if he changed his position, Pharnabazus would employ the numerous Persian cavalry to harass the Grecian cities, he tendered a truce, which the latter willingly accepted. For the occupation of JEolis by the Lacedae- monian general was a sort of watch-post (like Dekeleia to Athens,) exposing the whole of Phrygia near the Propontis (in which was Daskylium the residence of Pharnabazus) to constant attack. 2 Derkyllidas accordingly only marched through Phrygia, to take up his winter quarters in Bithynia, the north-western corner of Asia Minor, between the Propontis and the Euxine ; the same territory through which Xenophon and the Ten Thousand had inarched, on their road from Kalpe to Chalkedon. He procured Xen. Hellen. iii, 1, 28. Thus finishes the interesting narrative about Mania, Meidias, and Der- kyllidas. The abundance of detail, and the dramatic manner, in which Xenophon has worked it out, impress me with a belief that he was actually present at the scene. 2 Xen. Hellen. iii, 2, 1. VOJJ.L&V TT/V AloMda iriTeTeixicr&at TV tavroi OfKijtret. Qpvyia. The word iiriTeixi&iv is capital and significant, in Grecian warfare.