Anabasis, Book 6, no. 53, Part V summary
Book 6, no. 53, Part V of 56 · 4 min to read the part
In V, Seuthes provides only part of the soldiers’ wages, and Xenophon’s demands for full payment provoke hostility from both Seuthes and Heracleides. The other generals refuse to campaign without Xenophon, but continued operations strengthen Seuthes’s army while unpaid soldiers blame Xenophon and Seuthes avoids meeting him.
What happens
- At the Delta, Xenophon gives up the offered mules so that his fellow generals receive them instead.
- Seuthes supplies only twenty days’ pay for the completed month, and Xenophon rebukes Heracleides for failing to provide enough.
- Heracleides slanders Xenophon, while the soldiers blame him and Seuthes stops discussing gifts of fortified towns.
- The other generals reject Heracleides’s attempt to persuade them to continue campaigning without Xenophon.
- Xenophon brings all the generals and officers to the meeting, and they agree to continue the campaign.
- After subduing the district around Salmydessus, they return toward Selybria; Seuthes gains troops but avoids Xenophon as wages remain unpaid.
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Seuthes rebukes Heracleides after the other generals refuse to proceed without Xenophon. The question exposes the attempt to exclude him.
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