Kitap 4
2.3
But as soon as the troops of the rearguard were at a gorge which they had to cross before marching up the steep hill, at that moment the barbarians began to roll down round stones large enough for a wagon-load, with larger and smaller ones also; they came down with a crash upon the rocks below and the fragments of them flew in all directions, so that it was quite impossible even to approach the ascending road.
2.4
Then some of the captains, unable to proceed by this route, would try another, and they kept this up until darkness came on. It was not until they imagined that their withdrawal would be unobserved that they went back to dinner—and it chanced that they had had no breakfast either. The enemy, however, never stopped rolling down their stones all through the night, as one could judge from the noise.
2.5
Meanwhile the party with the guide, proceeding by a roundabout route, found the guardsi. e., the guards whom they expected to find upon the height mentioned (Xen. Anab. 4.1.25, Xen. Anab. 4.2.l). See below. sitting around a fire, and after killing some of them and chasing away the others they remained at the post themselves, supposing that they held the height.
