er beyond the right, and
the third in the centre. 16. The generals then desired the soldiers to
make their vows[241] to the gods; and having made them, and sung the
paean, they moved forward. Cheirisophus and Xenophon, and the peltasts
that they had with them, who were beyond the enemy's flanks, pushed on;
17. and the enemy, observing their motions, and hurrying forward to
receive them, were drawn off, some to the right and others to the left,
and left a great void in the centre of their line; 18. when the peltasts
in the Arcadian division, whom AEschines the Acarnanian commanded, seeing
them separate, ran forward in all haste, thinking that they were taking
to flight; and these were the first that reached the summit. The
Arcadian heavy-armed troop, of which Cleanor the Orchomenian was
captain, followed them. 19. But the enemy, when once the Greeks began to
run, no longer stood their ground, but went off in flight, some one way
and some another.

Having passed the summit, the Greeks encamped in a number of villages
containing abundance of provisions. 20. As to other things here, there
was nothing at which they were surprised; but the number of bee-hives
was extraordinary, and all the soldiers that ate of the combs, lost
their senses, vomited, and were affected with purging, and none of them
were able to stand upright; such as had eaten only a little were like
men greatly intoxicated, and such as had eaten much were like mad-men,
and some like persons at the point of death. 21. They lay upon the
ground, in consequence, in great numbers, as if there had been a defeat;
and there was general dejection. The next day no one of them was found
dead; and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had
lost them on the preceding day; and on the third and fourth days they
got up as if after having taken physic.[242]

22. From hence they proceeded two days' march, seven parasangs, and
arrived at Trebisond, a Greek city, of large population, on the Euxine
Sea; a colony of Sinope, but lying in the territory of the Colchians.
Here they stayed about thirty days, encamping in the villages of the
Colchians, 23. whence they made excursions and plundered the country of
Colchis. The people of Trebisond provided a market for the Greeks in the
camp, and entertained them in the city; and made them presents of oxen,
barley-meal, and wine. 24. They negotiated with them also on behalf of
the neighbouring Colchians, those especially