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 FHARNABAZUS SURPRISED. 275 Reinforced by the Paphlagonian auxiliaries, Agesilaus prosecuted the war with augmented vigor against the satrapy of Pharnabazus. He now approached the neighborhood of Daskylium, the resi- dence of the satrap himself, inherited from his father Pharnakes, who had been satrap before him. This was a well-supplied coun- try, full of rich villages, embellished with parks and gardens for the satrap's hunting and gratification : the sporting tastes of Xen- ophon lead him also to remark that there were plenty of birds for the fowler, with rivers full of fish. 1 In this agreeable region Age- silaus passed the winter. His soldiers, abundantly supplied with provisions, became so careless, and straggled with so much con- tempt of their enemy, that Pharnabazus, with a body of four hundred cavalry and two scythed chariots, found an opportunity of attacking seven hundred of them by surprise ; driving them back with considerable loss, until Agesilaus came up to protect them with the hoplites. This partial misfortune, however, was speedily avenged. Fear- ful of being surrounded arid captured, Pharnabazus refrained from occupying any fixed position. He hovered about the country, car- rying his valuable property along with him, and keeping his place of encampment as secret as he could. The watchful Spithridates, nevertheless, having obtained information that he was encamped for the night hi the village of Kane, about eighteen miles distant, Herippidas (one of the thirty Spartans) undertook a night-march with a detachment to surprise him. Two thousand Grecian hoplites, the like number of light-armed peltasts, and Spithridates with the Paphlagonian horse, were appointed to accompany him. Though many of these soldiers took advantage of the darkness to evade attendance, the enterprise proved completely successful. The camp of Pharnabazus was surprised at break of day ; his Mysian advanced guards were put to the sword, and he himself, with all his troops, was compelled to take flight with scarcely any resist- ance. All his stores, plate, and personal furniture, together with a large baggage-train and abundance of prisoners, fell into the hands southern coast of the Euxine, a Paphlagonian prince named Korylas is mentioned (Xen. Anab. v, 5, 22 ; v, 6, 8). Whether there was more than one Paphlagonian prince or whether Otys was successor of Korylas we cannot tell. 1 Xen. Heltan. IT, 1, 16-3*.