From that plabsp;they marched through the Troad, and, crossing Mount Ida, arrived at Antandrus, and then pushed along the aboard of Mysia to the plain of Thebe . Thenbsp;they made their way through Adramytium and Certonus by Atarneus, ing into the plain of the Caicus, and so reached Pergamus in Mysia.
Here Xenophon was hospitably eained at the hou of Hellas, the wife of Gongylus the Eretrian , the mother of Gion and Gongylus. From her he learnt that Asidates, a Persian notable, was in the plain. "If you take thirty men and go by night, you will take him prisoner," she said, "wife, children, money, and all; of money he has a store;" and to show them the way to the treasures, she nt her own cousin and Daphnagoras, whom she t great store by. So then Xenophon, with the two to assist, did sacrifibsp;and Basias, an Eleian, the soothsayer in attendanbsp;said that the victims were as promising as could be, and the great man would be an easy prey. Accly, after dinner he t off, taking with him the officers who had been his stau friends and fidants throughout; as he wished to do them a good turn. A number of others came thrusting themlves on their pany, to the number of six hundred, but the officers repelled them:"They had no notion of sharing their portion of the spoil," they said, "just as though the property lay already at their feet."
From that plabsp;they marched through the Troad, and, crossing Mount Ida, arrived at Antandrus, and then pushed along the aboard of Mysia to the plain of Thebe . Thenbsp;they made their way through Adramytium and Certonus by Atarneus, ing into the plain of the Caicus, and so reached Pergamus in Mysia.
Here Xenophon was hospitably eained at the hou of Hellas, the wife of Gongylus the Eretrian , the mother of Gion and Gongylus. From her he learnt that Asidates, a Persian notable, was in the plain. "If you take thirty men and go by night, you will take him prisoner," she said, "wife, children, money, and all; of money he has a store;" and to show them the way to the treasures, she nt her own cousin and Daphnagoras, whom she t great store by. So then Xenophon, with the two to assist, did sacrifibsp;and Basias, an Eleian, the soothsayer in attendanbsp;said that the victims were as promising as could be, and the great man would be an easy prey. Accly, after dinner he t off, taking with him the officers who had been his stau friends and fidants throughout; as he wished to do them a good turn. A number of others came thrusting themlves on their pany, to the number of six hundred, but the officers repelled them:"They had no notion of sharing their portion of the spoil," they said, "just as though the property lay already at their feet."