Xenophon, Hellenica, Book 3, chapter 1, section 2

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[2] As to how Cyrus collected an army and with this army made the march up country against his brother,¹ how the battle² was fought, how Cyrus was slain, and how after that the Greeks effected their return in safety to the sea—all this has been written by Themistogenes³ the Syracusan.

1 Artaxerxes.

2 At Cunaxa, near Babylon, in the autumn of 401 B.C.

3 Unknown except for this reference. It would seem that Xenophon's own Anabasis was not published at the time when these words were written.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. vol. 1:1918; vol. 2: 1921.

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