e cavalry the advantage, that it is safer
for them to flee than for us.

20. "But if, though you have courage for battle, you are disquieted at
the thought that Tissaphernes will no longer guide you, and that the
king will no longer supply you with provisions, consider whether it is
better to have Tissaphernes for our guide, who is manifestly plotting
our destruction, or such persons as we ourselves may seize and compel to
be our guides, who will be conscious that if they go wrong with regard
to us, they go wrong with regard to their own lives and persons. 21. And
as to provisions, whether is it better for us to purchase, in the
markets which they provide, small measures of food for large sums of
money, (no longer, indeed, having the money,) or, if we are successful
in the field, to take supplies for ourselves, adopting whatever measure
each of us may wish to use?

22. "Again, if you think, that this state of things will be better, but
imagine that the rivers will be impassable, and that you were greatly
misled when you came across them, reflect whether the Barbarians have
not acted most unwisely also in this respect.[131] For all rivers,
though they may be impassable at a distance from their sources, are easy
to be forded by those who go to their springs, wetting them not even to
the knees. 23. But even if the rivers shall not afford us a
passage,[132] and no guide shall appear to conduct us, we still need not
be in despair; for we know that the Mysians, whom we should not call
more valiant than ourselves, have settled themselves, against the king's
will, in many rich and large cities in the king's territory; we know
that the Pisidians have acted similarly; and we have ourselves seen[133]
that the Lycaonians, having seized on the strongholds in the plains,
enjoy the produce of the land of these Barbarians; 24. and I should
recommend that we, for the present, should not let it be seen that we
are eager to start homewards, but should apparently make arrangements as
if we thought of settling somewhere in these parts; for I am sure that
the king would grant the Mysians many guides, and give them many
hostages to send them out of the country safely, and even make roads for
them, though they should desire to depart in four-horse chariots; and
for ourselves, too, I am convinced that he would with thrice as much
pleasure do the same, if he saw us making dispositions to remain here.
25. But I am afraid that if we should once l