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forfeited life ; and, immediately on his arrival at Sardis, his rage 

 broke forth in a secret and cautious, but most malignant and deter- 

 mined, project to usurp the throne, and sacrifice to his vengeance a 

 too lenient brother. 



The preparations made by Cyrus, both by sea and land, for this 

 important undertaking, according to the accurate and elegant ac- 

 count of the historian Xenophon, who beheld them, were of an ex- 

 tent and magnitude adequate to the bold design. The whole of the 

 maritime provinces of his satrapy were compelled to furnish an am- 

 ple supply of ships and men, which were put under the direction of 

 Tamos, an Egyptian well skilled in naval affairs ; while a powerful 

 additional fleet, under Pythagoras, sailed from Sparta to join the 

 naval force collected on the coasts of Asia. This fleet was intended 

 to awe the coast of Cilicia and other maritime provinces, through 

 which their progress lay, and cause a diversion of the forces which 

 might be sent to oppose their march by land. By land, an army of 

 a hundred thousand of the choicest regular troops, fit for such an 

 arduous enterprize, were assembled, and the command of them 

 given to Persian officers, in whose courage and attachment Cyrus 

 knew he could confide : but, what was, at that time, of far more 

 consequence in a land-engagement, a band of determined Greeks, 

 to the amount of thirteen thousand, were assembled from all the 

 states in alliance with Lacedaemon, and marched, in a firm pha- 

 lanx, under the command of Clearchus, a general equally renowned 

 for policy and valour. Tidings of these formidable preparations 

 soon reached the court of Susa; but the artful satrap contrived to 

 quiet the apprehensions to which they naturally gave rise by solemn 

 assurance that they were intended partly to reduce Thrace, and 

 partly to repel the aggressions of Tissaphernes, a neighbouring satrap 

 at enmity with Cyrus, and against whom he insidiously preferred 

 the loudest complaints of treachery and rebellion. 



