Book 3
4.13
From this place they marched one stage, four parasangs. In the course of this stage Tissaphernes made his appearance, having under his command the cavalry which he had himself brought with him,i.e. from his province in Asia Minor, when he came to inform Artaxerxes of Cyrus’ designs against him. See Xen. Anab. 1.2.4. the troops of Orontas,cp. Xen. Anab. 2.4.8. who was married to the King’s daughter, the barbarians whom Cyrus had brought with him on his upward march, and those with whom the King’s brother had come to the aid of the Kingcp. Xen. Anab. 2.4.25.; besides these contingents Tissaphernes had all the troops that the King had given him; the result was, that his army appeared exceedingly large.
4.14
When he got near the Greeks, he stationed some of his battalions in their rear and moved others into position on their flanks; then, although he could not muster up the courage to close with them and had no desire to risk a decisive battle, he ordered his men to discharge their slings and let fly their arrows.
4.15
But when the Rhodian slingers and the bowmen, posted at intervals here and there, sent back an answering volley, and not a man among them missed his mark (for even if he had been very eager to do so, it would not have been easy),i.e. on account of the dense throng of the enemy. then Tissaphernes withdrew out of range with all speed, and the other battalions followed his example.
4.16
For the rest of the day the one army continued its march and the other its pursuit. And the barbarians were no longercp. Xen. Anab. 3.3.7-10. able to do any harm by their skirmishing at long range; for the Rhodian slingers carried farther with their missiles than the Persians, farther even than the Persian bowmen.
