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DIVISION OF THE ARMY. 147 exclaim that it was disgraceful to the Arcadians and Achoeans ; who formed more than one numerical half of the army and en- dured all the toil to obey as well as to enrich generals from other Hellenic cities ; especially a single Athenian who furnished no contingent to the army. Here again it is remarkable that the personal importance of Xenophon caused him to be still regarded as a general, though the sole command had been vested, by formal tote, in Cheirisophus. So vehement was the dissatisfaction, that all the Arcadian and Achaean soldiers in the army, more than four thousand and five hundred hoplites in number, renounced the au- thority of Cheirisophus, formed themselves into a distinct division, and chose ten commanders from out of their own numbers. The whole army thus became divided into three portions first, the Arcadians and Achasans ; secondly, one thousand and four hundred hoplites and seven hundred peltasts, who adhered to Cheiriso- phus ; lastly, one thousand seven hundred hoplites, three hundred peltasts, and forty horsemen, (all the horsemen in the army) attaching themselves to Xenophon; who however was taking measures to sail away individually from Herakleia and quit the army altogether, which he would have done had he not been re- strained by unfavorable sacrifices. 1 The Arcadian division, departing first, in vessels from Herakleia, landed at the harbor of Kalpe ; an untenanted promontory of the Bithynian or Asiatic Thrace, midway between Herakleia and By- zantium. From thence they marched at once into the interior of Bithynia, with the view of surprising the villages, and acquiring plunder. But through rashness and bad management, they first sustained several partial losses, and ultimately became surrounded upon an eminence, by a large muster of the indigenous Bithynians from all the territory around. They were only rescued from de- struction by the unexpected appearance of Xenophon with his division ; who had left Herakleia somewhat later, but heard by accident, during their march, of the danger of their comrades. The whole army thus became re-assembled at Kalpe, where the Area dians and Achaeans, disgusted at the ill-success of their separate expedition, again established the old union and the old generals. .They chose Neon in place of Cheirisophus, who, afflicted bj 1 Xen. Anab. vi, 2, 11-16.