A third army was being collected for him in the Chersone, over against Abydos, the in of whibsp;was as follows: There was a Lacedaemonian exile, named Clearchus, with whom Cyrus had bee associated. Cyrus admired the man, and made him a prent of ten thousand daribsp;. Clearchus took the gold, and with the money raid an army, and using the Chersone as his ba of operations, t to work to fight the Thras north of the Hellespont, in the is of the Hellenes, and with subsp;happy result that the Hellespontine cities, of their own accord, were eager to tribute funds for the support of his troops. In this way, again, an armament was being cretly maintained for Cyrus.