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 KLEAKCHUS IMPOSE/; UPON. 71 So powerful was the impression made upon Klearclms by these assurances, that he exclaimed, " Surely those informers deserve the severest punishment, who try to put us at enmity, when we are such good friends to each other, and have so much reason to be so." " Yes (replied Tissaphernes), they deserve nothing less ; and if you, with the other generals and lochages, will come into my tent to-morrow, I will tell you who the calumniators are." u To-be-sure I will (rejoined Klearchus), and bring the other gen- erals with me. I shall tell you at the same time, who are the parties that seek to prejudice us against you." The conversation then ended, the satrap detaining Klearchus to dinner, and treating him in the most hospitable and confidential manner. On the next morning, Klearchus communicated what had passed to the Greeks, insisting on the necessity that all the generals should go to Tissaphernes pursuant to his invitation ; in order to reestab- lish that confidence which unworthy calumniators had shaken, and to punish such of the calumniators as might be Greeks. So em- phatically did he pledge himself for the good faith and philhellenic dispositions of the satrap, that he overruled the opposition of many among the soldiers ; who, still continuing to entertain their former suspicions, remonstrated especially against the extreme imprudence of putting all the generals at once into the power of Tissaphernes. The urgency of Klearchus prevailed. Himself with four other generals, Proxenus, Menon, Agias, and Sokrates, and twenty lochages or captains, Avent to visit the satrap in his tent ; about two hundred of the soldiers going along with them, to make pur chases for their own account in the Persian camp-market. 1 On reaching the quarters of Tissaphernes, distant nearly three miles from the Grecian camp, according to habit, the five gen- erals were admitted into the interior, while the lochages remained at the entrance. A purple flag, hoisted from the top of the tent, betrayed too late the purpose for which they had been invited to come. The lochages and the Grecian soldiers who had accom- panied them were surprised and cut down, while the generals in the interior were detained, put in chains, and carried up as prison- ers to the Persian court. Here Klearchus, Proxenus, A ^ias, and riapav (3aai?iei fiovij e^fariv op&rjv fyeiv, rqv 6' km ry Kap6'^' h t/c uv I// v KCU Irepof eiTrerwf e%oi. Xen. Anab. ii, 5, 30.