(Anab. 6.1.16.) On their
arrival at Chrysopolis, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus, Anaxibius, being bribed by
Pharnabazus with great promises to withdraw them from his satrapy, again engaged to furnish
them with pay, and brought them over to Byzantium. Here he attempted to get rid of them, and
to send them forward on their march without fulfilling his agreement. A tumult ensued, in
which Anaxibius was compelled to fly for refuge to the Acropolis, and which was quelled only
by the remonstrances of Xenophon. (Anab. 7.1.1-32.) Soon after this the
Greeks left the town under the command of the adventurer Coeratades, and Anaxibius forthwith
issued a proclamation, subsequently acted on by Aristarchus the Harmost, that all Cyrean
soldiers found in Byzantium should be sold for slaves. (Anab. 7.1.36,
2.6.) Being however soon after superseded in the command, and finding himself neglected by
Pharnabazus, he attempted to revenge himself by persuading Xenophon to lead the army to invade
the country of the satrap; but the enterprise was stopped by the prohibition and threats of
Aristarchus. (Anab. 7.2.5-14.) In the year 389, Anaxibius was sent out
from Sparta to supersede Dercyllidas in the command at Abydus, and to check the rising
fortunes of Athens in the Hellespont. Here he met at first with some successes, till at length
Iphicrates, who had been sent against him by the Athenians, contrived to intercept him on his
return from Antandrus, which had promised to revolt to him, and of which he had gone to take
possession. Anaxibius, coming suddenly on the Athenian ambuscade, and foreseeing the certainty
of his own defeat, desired his men to save themselves by flight. His own duty, he said,
required him to die there; and, with a small body of comrades, he remained on the spot,
fighting till he fell,