ent to meet the troops coming along the heights. But
before the main bodies came together, those on the ridge closed with one
another, and the Greeks had the advantage, and put the enemy to flight.
25. At the same time the Grecian peltasts ran up from the plain to
attack the enemy drawn up to receive them, and Cheirisophus followed at
a quick pace with the heavy-armed men. 26. The enemy at the pass,
however, when they saw those above defeated, took to flight. Not many of
them were killed, but a great number of shields were taken, which the
Greeks, by hacking them with their swords, rendered useless. 27. As soon
as they had gained the ascent, and had sacrificed and erected a trophy,
they went down into the plain before them, and arrived at a number of
villages stored with abundance of excellent provisions.

[Footnote 223: This is rather oddly expressed; for the guide and the
chief were the same person.]

[Footnote 224: Not the Colchian Phasis, which flows into the Euxine, but
a river of Armenia ([Greek: Araxes], now _Aras_) which runs into the
Caspian. See Ainsworth, Travels, p. 179, 247. However Xenophon himself
seems to have confounded this Phasis with that of Colchis. See Rennell,
p. 230. _Kuehner_.]

[Footnote 225: [Greek: Epi phalangos].] See on iv. 3. 26.]

[Footnote 226: [Greek: Ton homoion].] The [Greek: homoioi] at Sparta
were all those who had an equal right to participate in the honours or
offices of the state; _qui pari inter se jure gaudebant, quibus honores
omnes aequaliter patebant_. Cragius de Rep. Lac. i. 10, cited by Sturz in
his Lex. Xenoph. See Xenophon De Rep. Lac. 13. 1 and 7; Aristot. Polit.
5. 7. 8. "A similar designation to that of [Greek: homotimoi] in the
Cyropaedia," _Schneider_. See Hellen. iii. 3. 5.]

[Footnote 227: A native of the country about Mount Oeta in Thessaly.
There was also however a town of that name in the south of Thessaly:
Thucyd. iii. 92.]

CHAPTER VII.

The Greeks, entering the country of the Taochi, storm a fort,
capturing a great number of cattle, on which they subsist while
traversing the region of the Chalybes. They cross the Harpasus,
and, marching through the territory of the Scythini, arrive at a
town called Gymnias, whence they are conducted to Mount Theches,
from the top of which they see the Euxine.

1. From hence they marched five days' journey, thirty parasangs, to the
country of the Taochi, where provisions began to