vanced so far as to make retreat scarcely practicable, and when the 

 plunder of some of the wealthiest cities of Cilicia, and other rick 

 satrapies in their way, had enabled him to discharge existing ar- 

 rears, and promise a considerable increase of pay in future, the real 

 object of the expedition was announced to the army, and the im- 

 mense spoil held out to them as their certain reward, added to the 

 glory to be acquired by success in so hazardous an expedition, not 

 only reconciled the Greeks to the project, but animated them to push 

 forward with ardour to its accomplishment. The native legions 

 were at all times too much in the habit of paying implicit obedience 

 to the despotic injunctions of their chieftains to make the least demur 

 or offer the smallest opposition to the orders for marching to de- 

 throne their prince. The various particulars of this long and toil- 

 some march, the battle of the contending armies on the plain of 

 Cunaxa in Assyria, the consequent death of Cyrus himself, hurried on 

 by his impetuous spirit to brave inevitable destruction by rushing on 

 Artaxerxes in the midst of his body-guard, and still more deserving 

 of notice, the celebrated retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, under 

 the conduct of the brave and judicious general, who so elegantly and 

 circumstantially relates it, are to be found in the interesting details 

 of the Grecian history of this period. They are solely mentioned 

 here for the purpose of distinctly marking the causes and progress 

 of that fatal rupture, that long-continued enmity, between the two 

 countries, which finally terminated in the downfal of the Persian 

 monarchy. 



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