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VOTS OF THE ARMY. 135 the sovereign authority to make war or peace with whom you please ; each individual among you will conduct the army against any point which he may choose. And even if men should come to you as envoys, either for peace or for other purposes, they may be slain by any single enemy ; so that you will be debarred from all public communications whatever. Next, those whom your univer- sal suffrage shall have chosen commanders, will have no authority ; while any self-elected general who chooses to give the word, Cast ! Cast ! (i. e. darts or stones), may put to death, without trial, either officer or soldier, as it suits him ; that is, if he finds you ready to obey him, as it happened near Kerasus. Look, now, what these self-elected leaders have done for you. The magistrate of Kerasus, if he was really guilty of wrong towards you, has been enabled to escape with impunity ; if he was innocent, he has been obliged to run away from you, as the only means of avoiding death without pretence or trial. Those who stoned the heralds to death, have brought matters to such a pass, that you alone, among all Greeks, cannot enter the town of Kerasus in safety, unless in commanding force ; and that we cannot even send in a herald to take up our dead (Klearetus and those who were slain in the attack on the Kerasuntine village) for burial ; though at first those who had slain them in self-defence were anxious to give up the bodies to us. For who will take the risk of going in as herald, from those who have set the example of putting heralds to death ? "We generals were obliged to entreat the Kerasuntines to bury the bodies for us."* Continuing in this emphatic protest against the recent disorders and outrages, Xenophon at length succeeded in impressing his own sentiment, heartily and unanimously, upon the soldiers. They uv larai rj?f crpannf. 'T/ietf (lev ol ituvrtq OVK <reir$e Kvptoi, OVT' uve?iea$ai nofe/iov u uv ftovTirjcr&e, OVTE Karahvaaf idia de 6 (3ov%6/j.evof ufet aTpurev/ta i<p O,TL uv i&eX'y. Kuv rivec irpbf vuu<; luai 7rpea/3eif, 7) elpr]- vrif deoftevoi J) a/U,ou rtvoj, /caraa(vovref roiirovt; ol jSov^opevoi^ Ttoiriaovaiv vfj.ag TUV Aoywv fj.% uKovaat. TUV Trpdf i/zdf lovruv. "ETreira 6e, ov HEV av iifielf oTravref e^c'&e ap^ovraf, iv ovSeniq, xupa saovrai' oarif d' uv eavrbv t?i:T)Tai arpaTijybv, Kal etfe/lfl Aeyetv, BaAAe, Ba/lAe, ourof ecrrat licavdf Kal apxovra KaraKalveiv Kal IdcuTTjv bv uv vfiuv frd&r/ UKPITOP av uatv ol treioofievji avrti, urnrep KOI vvv eyevero. 8 Xea Anab. T 7, 27-30.