intended. But this is to do violence to the word; I have followed Weiske
and Kuehner, who give it its ordinary signification. "Barbarorum et
Graecorum [exercitum]," says Kuehner, "quem Cyrus ibi, ubi versabatur,
collectum habebat." The [Greek: to] before [Greek: entautha] is an
addition of Dindorf's, which Kuehner pronounces unnecessary.]

[Footnote 16: The [Greek: peltastai] were troops armed with a light
shield, called [Greek: pelte], holding a middle place between the
[Greek: hoplitai] and [Greek: psiloi]. They were first made an efficient
part of the Greek forces by Iphicrates: see his Life in Corn. Nep.; and
Xen. Hellen. iv. 4. 16; 3. 12.]

[Footnote 17: Xenophon begins his account of the expedition from Sardis,
because he there joined the army, but afterwards constantly computes
from Ephesus, the sea-port from whence he began his journey.
_Stanford_.]

[Footnote 18: [Greek: Stathmoos].] The word [Greek: stathmos] means
properly a _station_ or _halting-place_ at the end of a day's march, of
which the length varied, but was generally about five parasangs.]

[Footnote 19: The parasang in Xenophon is equal to thirty stadia; see
ii. 2. 6. So Herodotus, ii. 6; v. 53. Mr. Ainsworth, following Mr.
Hamilton and Colonel Leake, makes the parasang equal to 3 English miles,
180 yards, or 3 geographical miles of 1822 yards each. _Travels in the
Track_, pref. p. xii. Thus five parasangs would be a long day's march;
these marches were more than seven; and the next day's was eight. But
Rennell thinks the parasang not more than 2.78 English miles. Mr.
Hussey, _Anc. Weights_, &c., Append. sect. 12, makes it 3 miles, 787-1/2
yards.]

[Footnote 20: The _plethrum_ was 100 Greek or 101.125 English feet. See
Hussey, Append. sect. 10, p. 232.]

[Footnote 21: The king of Persia was called the Great King by the Greek
writers, on account of the great extent of his dominions, or of the
number of kings subject to him; a title similar to that of the
successors of Mahomet, Grand Signior.]

[Footnote 22: This is the reading of the name adopted by Dindorf and
Kuehner; most other editors have _Socrates_, which occurs in four
manuscripts; two have _Sosias_, and one _Sostes_.]

[Footnote 23: The word is here used, as Spelman observes, in a more
general sense than ordinary, to signify all that were not heavy-armed.]

[Footnote 24: [Greek: Ta Lykaia].] The festival of Lycaean Jove is
mentioned by Pausanias, viii. 2. 1, and the gymnastic cont