Xenophon's Anabasis (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.9.29)

men, except for those who were sufficient to guard the citadels. He also summoned those who were besieging Miletus, and ordered the fugitives to campaign with him, promising them that if he successfully achieved the objects for which he was campaigning, he would not stop before he restored them to their homes. They willingly obeyed. They trusted him, and taking their arms, they went to Sardis. Xenia, having taken the men from the cities, arrived at Sardis with four thousand hoplites. Proxenus was present having fifteen hundred hoplites and five hundred light-armed troops. Sophaenetus the Stymphalian had one thousand hoplites, and Socrates the Achaean had about five hundred hoplites. Pasion the Megarian arrived having seven hundred men. Both he and Socrates were among those campaigning around Miletus. These arrived at Sardis for him. Tissaphernes, having noticed these things, and considering the preparation to be greater than what was for the Pisidians, went to the King as quickly as possible, having about five hundred cavalry. And the King, when he heard from Tissaphernes about the armament of Cyrus, prepared himself. Cyrus, as I said, set out from Sardis and marched through Lydia for three stages, twenty-two parasangs a Persian unit of distance, approximately 3.5 miles, to the Maeander River. The width of this is two plethra a Greek unit of length, roughly 100 feet. There was a bridge on it, joined by seven boats. Having crossed this, he marched through Phrygia for one stage, eight parasangs, to Colossae, an inhabited city, prosperous and large. There he stayed for seven days. And Menon the Thessalian arrived, having one thousand hoplites and five hundred peltasts, Dolopians, Aenianians,