174 HISTORY OF GREECE. share valuable enough to enrich him at once, in addition to the fifty darics which he had before received. " Here then Xenophon (to use his own language 1 ) had no reason to complain of the god" (Zeus Meilichios). We may add, what he ought to have added, considering the accusations which he had before put forth. that neither had he any reason to complain of the ingratitude of the army. As soon as Thimbron arrived with his own forces, and the Cyreians became a part of his army, Xenophon took his leave of them. Having deposited hi the temple at Ephesus that portion which had been confided to him as general, of the tithe set apart by the army at Kerasus for the Ephesian Artemis, 2 he seems to have executed his intention of returning to Athens. 3 He must have arrived there, after an absence of about two years and a half, within a few weeks, at farthest, after the death of his friend and preceptor Sokrates, whose trial and condemnation have been recorded hi my last volume. That melancholy event certainly occurred during his absence from Athens; 4 but whether it had come to his knowledge before he reached the city, we do not know. How much grief and indignation it excited in his mind, we may see by his collection of memoranda respecting the life and conversations of Sokrates, known by the name of Memorabi- lia, and probably put together shortly after his arrival. That he was again in Asia, three years afterwards, on military service under the Lacedaemonian king Agesilaus, is a fact attested by himself; but at what precise moment he quitted Athens for his second visit to Asia, we are left to conjecture. I incline to believe that he did not remain many months at home, but that he went out again in the next spring to rejoin the Cyreians in Asia, became again their commander, and served for two years under the Spartan general Derkyllidas before the arrival of Age- 1 Xen. Anab. vii, 8, 23. 'EiraCtfa rbv debv OVK yriuaaro 6 EevoQuv avvETrparrov yap nal ol AUK- uvef Kal ol Ao^ayoi Kal ol uTJioi, ffTparrj-yol Kal ol arpariijTai, uare H-aipera XajSeiv Kal lirnov$ Kal &vyi) Kal uAXa, UOTE luavbv elvai Kal uXhov 7f6tj di ffXECV. 1 Xen. Anab. v, 3, 6. It seems plain that this deposit must have been first made on the present occasion.
- Compare Anabasis, vii, 7, 57; vii, 8, 2.
4 Xenoph. Memorab. iv, 8, 4 as well a; the opening sentence of th work.
