Kitap 2
4.25
From the Tigris they marched four stages, twenty parasangs, to the Physcus river, which was a plethrum in width and had a bridge over it. There was situated a large city named Opis, near which the Greeks met the bastard brother of Cyrus and Artaxerxes, who was leading a large army from Susa and Ecbatana to the support, as he said, of the King; and he halted his own army and watched the Greeks as they passed by.
4.26
Clearchus led them two abreast, and halted now and then in his march; and whatever the length of time for which he halted the van of the army, just so long a time the halt would necessarily last through the entire army; the result was that even to the Greeks themselves their army seemed to be very large, and the Persian was astounded as he watched them.
4.27
From there they marched through Media, six desert stages, thirty parasangs, to the villages of Parysatis,cp. Xen. Anab. 1.4.9. the mother of Cyrus and the King. And Tissaphernes, by way of insulting Cyrus,i.e. through the mother who loved him better than her reigning son Artaxerxes (Xen. Anab. 1.1.4). gave over these villages—save only the slaves they contained—to the Greeks to plunder. In them there was grain in abundance and cattle and other property.
