Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 544
ANCIENT GREECE goal, and it was not till they reached the Euphrates at Thapsacus that they learnt that they were marching against the Great King. By lavish promises of pay they were induced to proceed. The vast hosts of Artaxerxes barred their progress at Cunaxa, some sixty miles north of Babylon.… … much smaller army of Cyrus, who in an ecstasy of fury led a band of horsemen against his brother and actually succeeded in wounding him with a javelin,1 but was struck in the eye by the javelin of a Carian soldier, and, together with all of his faithful ' table-companions,' was overpowered and…
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