The manner in whibsp;he trived the levying of the troops was as follows: First, he nt orders to the andants of garrisons in the cities (so held by him), bidding them to get together as large a body of picked Peloponnesian troops as they verally were able, on the plea that Tissaphernes was plotting against their cities; and truly the cities of Ionia had inally belonged to Tissaphernes, being given to him by the king; but at this time, with the exception of Miletus, they had all revolted to Cyrus. In Miletus, Tissaphernes, having bee aware of similar designs, had forestalled the spirators by putting some to death and banishing the remainder. Cyrus, on his side, weled the fugitives, and having collected an army, laid siege to Miletus by a and land, endeav to reinstate the exiles; and this gave him another pretext for colleg an armament. At the same time he nt to the king, and claimed, as being the king''s brother, that the cities should be given to himlf rather than that Tissaphernes should tinue to govern them; and in furtheranbsp;of this end, the queen, his mother, co-operated with him, so that the king not only failed to e the design against himlf, but cluded that Cyrus ending his money on armaments in order to make war on Tissaphernes. Nor did it pain him greatly to e the two at war together, and the less so becau Cyrus was careful to remit the tribute due to the king from the cities which beloo Tissaphernes.
The manner in whibsp;he trived the levying of the troops was as follows: First, he nt orders to the andants of garrisons in the cities (so held by him), bidding them to get together as large a body of picked Peloponnesian troops as they verally were able, on the plea that Tissaphernes was plotting against their cities; and truly the cities of Ionia had inally belonged to Tissaphernes, being given to him by the king; but at this time, with the exception of Miletus, they had all revolted to Cyrus. In Miletus, Tissaphernes, having bee aware of similar designs, had forestalled the spirators by putting some to death and banishing the remainder. Cyrus, on his side, weled the fugitives, and having collected an army, laid siege to Miletus by a and land, endeav to reinstate the exiles; and this gave him another pretext for colleg an armament. At the same time he nt to the king, and claimed, as being the king''s brother, that the cities should be given to himlf rather than that Tissaphernes should tinue to govern them; and in furtheranbsp;of this end, the queen, his mother, co-operated with him, so that the king not only failed to e the design against himlf, but cluded that Cyrus ending his money on armaments in order to make war on Tissaphernes. Nor did it pain him greatly to e the two at war together, and the less so becau Cyrus was careful to remit the tribute due to the king from the cities which beloo Tissaphernes.