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Often appears with: truce negotiation · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · hellenic quarters · equity, mercy, and pardon · burning houses promise · battle and tactics
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1)
Xenophon negotiates a truce with Carduchians for recovery of dead bodies and non-burning of houses, then orders the army to continue while the enemy attacks again; the Hellenes unite and find quarters in dwellings with abundant wine.
that they, from their higher ground, had been able to see what was going on in the rear, and had all made off in this fashion to attack the rearguard. So then Xenophon, with the youngest men, scaled up to the top, leaving orders to the rest to march on slowly, so as to allow the hindmost companies to unite with them; they were to advance by the road, and when they reached the level to ground arms (3). Meanwhile the …