Anabasis

Now in my own opinion the plans just proposed are nonsense; rather, I think we should send to Cyrus men of the proper sort, along with Clearchus, to ask him what use he wishes to make of us; and if his enterprise is like the sort of one in which he employed mercenaries before,[*](As described in Xen. Anab. 1.1.2.) I think that we also should follow him and not be more cowardly than those who went up with him on the former occasion;