68 EXERCISES ON - 2. Cyrus sends vessels. Thence Clearchus advances five day’s-marches. , O Lacedemonians, send vessels and money to Cyrus®. If indeed the sun should rise. 'T hey suddenly hear a tumult. Cyrus has no vessels’. Clearchus, carry back word “to Cyrus. Arius has indeed no money, but he has five vessels. We bring no money. Do not send vessels. They send no ves- sels. Let them send no vessels. Thereupon Proxenus burns five vessels. Let us go up, for the sun is rising. III. L. Let us take counsel. Let them learn both to rule and to be ruled. Clearchus, if you wish®, speak. But, if they will, let them remain. Let Proxenus march. Clearchus is not will- ing. to journey with Arizeus’. Let us not march with Cyrus. O Lacedemonians, let us consult? together? Let them march, if they will. 2. Thereupon Cyrus sends for Clearchus. Clearchus and * Proxenus are persuaded. We are not willing to obey, nor to follow. But, if you desire, go up. Do not, by the gods, be insane. Do not, then, depart. = Suddenly the sun appears. And may they arrive safely! But now let us go forth with javelins. Lycius brings five leathern bags to Chirisophuss. They are not ashamed before either men or gods. May you now depart safely! Do not suppose, Lacedseemonians. We are not mad. . Iv. 1. Cyrus sends for Ctesias. Orontes is arrested. Cyrus advances five parasangs. Agasias of Stymphalus, a captain, comes up and arrests five robbers. Thereupon thirty robbers approach with javelins and leathern bags. A robber wounds Agasias. It is said. Do not wonder, Agasias. Ororites, are you not" ashamed before either men or gods? - 2. Phrygia produces barley, wheat, sesame, millet, and pa- nic. Mithridates writes a letter, and sends if to Cyrus. They (2) Dat., §§ 398,399. (b) C. hus not vessels. For a negative adjective before a substantive, the Greek often employs a negative adverb before a verb. (¢) "Edirw and Bodropas are nearly synonymous, and ‘in many cases either may be used. 'Edixw, however; expresses the wish or will more as a Sfeeling; and PoiXopas, more as a rational purpose or preference. (d) Dat., §§ 648, 652. a. (e) Middle Voice. (f)§ 213.3. (g)Dat, § 399. (h) The general distine- tion between od and 4 in interrogative sentences is the following : Od expects an affirmative answer ; uw, a negative. (i) Barley and wheat and sesame, &e. In such cases the conjunction is usually repeated in Greek. (j) The Greek LESSONS IL — V._ 69 bring ** five wagon-loads of large stones. Seuthes has no sol- diers. Thence he advances through Phrygia five stations, thirty parasangs. From sea to sea. Soldiers, do not approach. Abrozelmes comes with thirty robbers. Vv. 1. A narrow pass appears. A thousand wild asses approach. ~ White clouds appear. They march through Phrygia, a friendly country®. Two carriage roads, very steep and narrow. Cyrus sends to Clearchus fourteen hundred™ heavy-armed men. “We have no strongholds. Agasias goes forth with hoplites and other soldiers, twenty-four hundred in all". They carry goat-skins, sacks’, and other receptacles. . , 2. The robbers bring stones. The soldiers so judge. And on the fourth day, Cyrus with two thousand heavy-armed troops descends into the plain. On a sudden™" Lycius closes the gates, and inserts a strong bar. But let us not leave the place by flight. The soldiers are in great need of? a common de- liverance. 3. But on the fourth day the trumpeters give asignal. There- upon the heads of the robbers are cut off. If indeed™? the deity should so direct: Mithridates flies at full speed, and throws himself into the sea. The truce remains. The soldiers | wonder at'° the truce. 4. Mithridates therefore comes again to Orontes. But Seu- thes escapes into the stronghold. He descends ‘into the vil- lages® upon the springs of the river Centrites. Proxenus there- fore ascends into the citadel above the plain. He escapes into the village over the plain which lies along the river Marsyas. 5. The master of each village. Let us strive for an honor- able death”. The hoplites fly at full speed through the midst of the plain. The soldiers of Cyrus come against my country. The friends of our brother leave the citadel by flight. From this day let the truce remain. Let us cease from that design. “They flee out of that country. 6. From that day the Lacedzmonians rule upon the sea and upon the land. Seuthes rules at the present time®. It is said in the preceding narrative. The heavy-armed cross with diffi- usually omits pronouns which will be readily understood, and which have no emphasis. (k) § 331. (I) Dual. (m) § 140. 1. (n) to the number of two thousand and four hundred men. (0) and’ sacks. (p) need strongly. (9) In respect to the position of the article and a limiting word or phrase, and the frequent repetition of the article, observe carefully § 472 and the usage of Greek writers. The position of the genitive partitive (§ 358) conforms to $472. a. (r) about the dying honorably. (8) during the now time.