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 220 HISTORY OF GREECE. nabazus (who nad gone up to court in the interval (o concert more vigorous means of prosecuting the war, but had now returned) 1 joined him in Karia, prepared to commence vigorous operations for the expulsion of Derkyllidas and his army. Having properly garrisoned the strong places, the two satraps crossed the Magander at the head of a powerful Grecian and Karian force, with nume- rous Persian cavalry, to attack the Ionian cities. As soon as he heard this news, Derkyllidas came back with his army from Karia, to cover the towns menaced. Having recrossed the Meander, he was marching with his army in disorder, not suspecting the enemy to be near, when on a sudden he came upon their scouts, planted on some sepulchral monuments in the road. He also sent some scouts up to the neighboring monuments and towers, who apprised him that the two satraps, with their joint force in good order, were planted here to intercept him. He immediately gave orders for his hoplites to form in battle array of eight deep, with the peltasts, and his handful of horsemen, on each flank. But such was the alarm caused among his troops by this surprise, that none could be relied upon except the Cyreians and the Peloponnesians. Of the insular and Ionian hoplites, from Priene and other cities, some actually hid their arms in the thick standing corn, and fled ; others, who took their places in the line, manifested dispositions which left lit- tle hope that they would stand a charge ; so that the Persians had the opportunity of fighting a battle not merely with superiority of number, but also with advantage of position and circumstances. Pharnabazus was anxious to attack without delay. But Tissa- phernes, who recollected well the valor of the Cyreian troops, and concluded that all the remaining Greeks were like them, forbade it; sending forward heralds to demand a conference. As they approached, Derkyllidas, surrounding himself with a body-guard of the finest and best-equipped soldiers, 2 advanced to the front of the line to meet them ; saying that he, for his part, was prepared 1 Diodor. xiv, 39. 8 Xen. Hellcn. iii, 2, 18. In the Anabasis (ii, 3, 3) Xenophon mentions the like care on the part of Klearchus, to have the best armed and most impos r ng soldiers around him, when he went to his interview with Tissaphernes. Xenophon gladly avails himself of the opportunity, to pay an indirect compliment to the Cvreian army.