ure of Xerxes from Greece.]

[Footnote 105: i. 7. 15.]

CHAPTER V

After a three days' halt on the river Zabatus, Clearchus endeavours
to put an end to the distrust between the Persians and the Greeks
by an interview with Tissaphernes. He is received so plausibly that
he is induced to return on the following day, accompanied by five
other generals and twenty captains, in expectation of being
informed of the persons who had excited, by false reports, ill
feelings between the two armies. The generals are conducted into
the tent and put to death; the captains and those with them are
massacred on the outside, one only escaping to tell the tale.
Ariaeus calls on the rest of the Greeks to surrender their arms, but
is answered with defiance.

1. Soon after, they arrived at the river Zabatus, the breadth of which
was four plethra. Here they remained three days; during which the same
suspicions continued, but no open indication of treachery appeared. 2.
Clearchus therefore resolved to have a meeting with Tissaphernes, and,
if it was at all possible, to put a stop to these suspicions, before
open hostilities should arise from them. He accordingly sent a person to
say, that he wished to have a meeting with Tissaphernes; who at once
requested him to come. 3. When they met, Clearchus spoke as follows: "I
am aware, O Tissaphernes, that oaths have been taken, and right-hands
pledged between us, that we will do no injury to each other:
nevertheless, I observe you on your guard against us, as though we were
enemies; and we, perceiving this, stand on our guard against you. 4. But
since, upon attentive observation, I can neither detect you in any
attempt to injure us, and since, as I am certain, we have no such
intentions towards you, it seemed proper for me to come to a conference
with you, that we may put an end, if we can, to our distrust of one
another. 5. For I have, before now, known instances of men, who, being
in fear of another, some through direct accusations, and others through
mere suspicion, have, in their eagerness to act before they suffered,
inflicted irremediable evils upon those who neither intended nor wished
anything of the kind. 6. Thinking, therefore, that such
misunderstandings may be best cleared up by personal communications, I
have come here, and am desirous to convince you that you have no just
ground for mistrusting us. 7. In the first and princ