him his shield, and marched on with it as fast as he was able.
He happened however to have on his horseman's corslet, so that he was
distressed. Yet he continued to exhort the men in front to lead on
gently, and those behind, who followed with difficulty, to come up. 49.
But the rest of the soldiers beat and threw stones at Soterides, and
reviled him, till they obliged him to resume his shield and march in his
place. Xenophon, remounting, led the way, as long as it was passable for
his horse, on horseback, but when it became impassable, he left his
horse behind, and hastened forward on foot. Thus they got the start of
the enemy, and arrived first at the summit.

[Footnote 145: [Greek: Krepis d' hypen lithine, k. t. l.]] The
foundation appears to have risen twenty feet above the ground; so that
the whole height of the wall would be a hundred and twenty feet. Mr.
Ainsworth says that he found the ruins of the brick wall at Resen, which
he considers to be the same with Larissa, "based on a rude and hard
conglomerate rock, giving to them all the solidity and characteristics
of being built of stone." _Travels in the Track_, p. 139.]

[Footnote 146: Cyrus the Great.]

[Footnote 147: [Greek: Elambanon].] That the Medes did not willingly
submit, but were overcome by force, is testified by Herodotus, and is
apparent from what is said here; whence it follows that [Greek:
lambanein ten archen para tinos] may be applied even when those who lose
the government are forcibly deprived of it. Xenophon however is at
variance with himself in the Cyropaedia, where Cyrus is said to have
succeeded to the throne by a marriage with the daughter of Cyaxares.
_Kuehner_.]

[Footnote 148: [Greek: Helion de nephele prokalypsasa ephanise].] This
reading has been adopted by Dindorf and others, from a conjecture of
Brodaeus or Muretus; the manuscripts have all [Greek: helios de nephelen
prokalypsas], except two, one of which has the [Greek: n] erased in
[Greek: nephelen], and the other [Greek: nephele]. Those who read with
Dindorf refer to Plutarch de Placit. Philosoph. ii. 24, where the cause
of an eclipse of the sun is said by some philosophers to be _a
condensation of clouds imperceptibly advancing over the disc_. Bornemann
and Kuehner restore the reading of the manuscripts, which Langius thus
interprets: _sol nubem sibi praetendens se obscuravit_; than which no
better explanation has been offered. That we are not to suppose an
eclipse of the su