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FRAUD OF ANAXIBIUS. 155 F'oi Anaxibius had practised a gross fraud in promising them pay, which he had neither the ability nor the inclination to provide. Without handing to them either pay or even means of purchasing supplies, he issued orders that they must go forth with arms and baggage, and muster outside of the gates, there to be numbered for an immediate march ; any one who stayed behind being held as punishable. This proclamation was alike unexpected and offen- sive to the soldiers, who felt that they had been deluded, and were very backward in obeying. Hence Kleander, while urgent with Xenophon to defer his departure until he had conducted the army outside of the walls, added " Go forth as if you were about to march along with them ; when you are once outside, you may de- part as soon as you please." 1 Xenophon replied that this matter must be settled with Anaxibius, to whom accordingly both of them went, and who repeated the same directions, in a manner yet more peremptory. Though it was plain to Xenophon that he was here making himself a sort of instrument to the fraud which Anaxibius had practised upon the army, yet he had no choice but to obey. Accordingly, he as well as the other generals put themselves at the head of the troops, who followed, however reluctantly, and arrived most of them outside of the gates. Eteonikus (a Lacedae- monian officer of consideration, noticed more than once in my last preceding volume) commanding at the gate, stood close to it in person ; in order that when all the Cyreians had gone forth, he might immediately shut it and fasten it with the bar. 2 Anaxibius knew well what he was doing. He fully anticipated that the communication of the final orders would occasion an out- break among the Cyreians, and was anxious to defer it until they were outside. But when there remained only the rearmost com- panies still in the inside and on their march, all the rest having got out he thought the danger was over, and summoned to him the generals and captains, all of whom were probably near the gates superintending the march through. It seems that Xenophon, having given notice that he intended to depart, did not answer to this summons as one of the generals, but remained outside among 1 Xen. Anab. vii, 1, 7-10. 'A/l/l' d/utis (s^n)-, tyu aoi trvftfiovfavu if Tropevaojievov eTreitiav (5' efw yevT/rai TO arpu.Tevfj.a, TOTE uxaTCkuTTt f- fu. 1 Xen. Anab. vii, 1, 12.