Anabasis

Upon hearing these words Xenophon dismounted from his horse. And Seuthes asked: Why do you dismount, for there is need of haste? I know, Xenophon replied, that I am not the only one you need; and the hoplites will run faster and more cheerfully if I also am on foot leading the way.

After this Seuthes went off, and with him Timasion at the head of about forty horsemen of the Greeks. Then Xenophon gave orders that the active men up to thirty years of age should move up from their several companies to the front. So he himself ran along with them, while Cleanor led the rest.

When they had reached the villages, Seuthes with about thirty horsemen rode up to him and said: Here’s the very thing, Xenophon, that you were saying;[*](See 37, 38 above. Seuthes has again (cp. 41) gone ahead with his fastest arm (his cavalry), and now appreciates the danger of having them unsupported (cp. ἔρημοι below) by infantry.) these fellows are caught, but unhappily my horsemen have gone off unsupported, scattering in their pursuit, and I fear that the enemy may get together somewhere in a body and work some harm. On the other hand, some of us also must remain in the villages, for they are full of people.

Well, Xenophon replied, I myself with the troops I have will seize the heights, and do you direct Cleanor to extend his line through the plain alongside the villages. When they had done these things, there were gathered together captives to the number of a thousand, two thousand cattle, and ten thousand smaller animals besides. Then they bivouacked where they were.