Roman diſcipline[1] in his time, and of its effects, which Marius had before experienced in the Cimbric war. Men who could undergo ſuch fatigues might well perform longer marches than thoſe to which Mr. Rennel objects. But, fays Mr. R. the ſpace of 14½ miles was the mean diſtance travelled by an Indian army. But that of Cyrus was not a tumultuary multitude of that kind. Xenophon himſelf relates a remarkable[2] inſtance how forward the principal perſons among them were to expedite the march of the army by their perſonal exertions. Cyrus himſelf was the moſt conſummate general of the age in which he lived; he commanded forces raiſed in Greece, or in countries connected with it; he himſelf admired and practiſed the Grecian diſcipline; he promiſed himſelf the empire of Perſia, by the aid of the Greeks; and although a tragical accident put an end at once to his life and to his hopes, his allies, in the midſt of an enemy's country, and ſubject to every diſadvantage, returned ſword in hand, in deſpite of all the efforts of their enemies, by a different road, and reached Greece in ſafety. Surely ſuch forces were as capable of a long
- ↑ Noſtri exereitus unde nomen habent vides: deinde qui labor, quantuſque agminis, ferre plus dimidiati menſis cibaria; ferre, ſi quid ad uſum velint: ferre vallum? Nam ſcutum, gladium, galeam, in onere noſtri milites non plus numerant, quam humerus, laoertos, manus: arma enim membra milites eſſe ducunt. Ciceron. Tuſc. Diſp. lib. ii. ſect. 15.
- ↑ Once, where the road was narrow, and ſo deep that the carriages could not paſſ without difficulty, Cyrus ſtopped, with thoſe about him of the greateſt authority and fortune, and ordered Glus and Pigres to take ſome of the barbarians belonging to his army, and help the carriages through: but thinking they went ſlowly about it, he ordered, as in anger, the moſt conſiderable Perſians who were with him to aſſiſt in haſtening on the carriages. This afforded an inſtance of their ready obedience; for, throwing of their purple robes, where each of them happened to Rand, they ran, as if it had been for a prize, down a very ſteep hill, in their coſtly'veſts and embroidered drawers, ſome even with chains about their necks, and bracelets round their wriſts; and leaping into the dirt with theſe, they lifted up the carriages, and brought them out ſooner than can be imagined. Spelman's Expedition of Cyrus, p. 30, 31.
