Kurds have become Mohommedans, and rejected the use of wine, there is no
doubt they are sometimes used for depots for corn or hay, and even
sometimes for water. They were generally closed by a single large
stone." _Travels in the Track, &c._ p. 164.]

[Footnote 189: [Greek: Engythen pheugontes].] "Fleeing from near," i. e.
when they were at no great distance before us.]

[Footnote 190: [Greek: To aristero podi prosbainontes].] All the
manuscripts have [Greek: probainontes]: [Greek: prosbainontes] is a
conjecture of Wesseling ad Diod. Sic. iii. 8, which all the recent
editors have adopted, but by which it does not appear that anything is
gained, as [Greek: pros to kato tou toxou] precedes. Spelman, who was
himself an archer, has illustrated the passage very clearly by a
quotation from Arrian, Indie. 16: "Resting one end of the bow upon the
ground, and stepping forward with the left foot, ([Greek: to podi to
aristero antibantes],) they thus discharge the arrow, drawing the string
a long way back, the arrow being nearly three cubits long." See also
Diod. Sic. l. c., where he speaks of the archery of the AEthiopians;
Strabo, xvi. p. 1117; Suidas in [Greek: Arabes], cited by Weiske.
Schneider and Halbkart, strangely enough, think that Xenophon is
speaking of _cross-bows_, which few besides themselves have supposed to
have been known in Xenophon's time.]

[Footnote 191: [Greek: Enankylontes].] "Fitting them with [Greek:
ankylai]." The [Greek: ankyle] is generally supposed to be the same with
the Latin _amentum_, a strap or loop fastened to the middle of a
javelin, or the shaft of a spear, that it might be hurled with the
greater force. The writer of the article _Ansa_ in Smith's Dict. of G.
and R. Ant. thinks, however that the two were not the same.]

CHAPTER III.

The Greeks arrive at the river Centrites, which divides the
Carduchi from Armenia. They see the Persians drawn up on the
opposite bank, while the Carduchi threaten their rear. They are
encouraged by a dream of Xenophon's to try a ford, and effect a
safe passage across the stream.

1. This day the Greeks abode in the villages above the plain near the
river Centrites, the breadth of which is about two hundred feet, and
which forms the boundary between Armenia and the territory of the
Carduchi. Here they took some rest, being glad to see a piece of level
country. The river is distant from the mountains of the Carduchi about
six