Kitap 5
4.6
If you wish, therefore, it is within your power to secure us as allies, to exact vengeance for any wrong these people have ever done you, and to make them henceforth your subjects.
4.7
But if you dismiss us with a refusal, where, bethink you, could you ever again secure so large a force to help fight your battles?
4.8
To these words the chief of the Mossynoecians replied that they desired this arrangement and accepted the alliance.
4.9
Well, then, said Xenophon, what use will you want to make of us if we become your allies, and what assistance will you, in your turn, be able to render us in the matter of our passage through this territory?
4.10
They replied: We are able to invade this land of your enemies and ours from the opposite side, and to send to you here not only ships, but men who will aid you in the fighting and will guide you on your way.
4.11
After confirming this agreement by giving and receiving pledges they departed. The next day they returned, bringing with them three hundred canoes, each made out of a single log and each containing three men, two of whom disembarked and fell into line under arms, while the third remained in the canoe.
