10. Aristippus, also, a Thessalian, happened to be a guest-friend[13] of Cyrus, and, being pressed by an adverse faction at home, came to him, and asked him for two thousand mercenary troops, and three months' pay for them, representing that he would thus be enabled to overpower his enemies. Cyrus granted him four thousand, and six months' pay, desiring him not to terminate the strife until he should consult him. Thus another body of troops was clandestinely supported for him in Thessaly. 11. He then requested Proxenus a Bœotian, who was also his guest-friend, to join him with as many men as he could procure, stating that he intended to make war on the Pisidians, as they molested his territories. He also desired Sophænetus of Stymphalus,[14] and Socrates, an Achæan, both of them his guest-friends, to come to him, and bring as many men as possible, pretending that he was going to war with Tissaphernes on behalf of the Milesian exiles; and they acted as he wished. [Footnote 1: Darius II., surnamed Nothus, who reigned from B. C. 423 to B. C. 404, the year in which Cyrus went up to Babylon.] [Footnote 2: Several children of his are mentioned by Plutarch, Life of Artax. c. i. 27.] [Footnote 3: Afterwards Artaxerxes II., surnamed Mnemon; he began his reign B. C. 405.] [Footnote 4: Εἰς Καστωλοῦ πεδίον.] In each of the provinces of the Persian empire, certain open places, plains or commons, were appointed for the assembly and review of troops. See i. 2. 11; 9. 7; Hellen. 43. Heeren, _Ideen_, vol. ii. p. 486. Castolus is mentioned as a city of Lydia by Stephanus of Byzantium. _Kühner_.] [Footnote 5: Τῶν Ἑλλήνων ---- ὁπλίτας ---- τριακοσίους.] Three hundred of the Greeks that were in his pay, or of such as he could then procure.] [Footnote 6: A city and district in the south-western part of Arcadia.] [Footnote 7: Ὑπῆρχε τῷ Κύρῳ.] "Partibus et consiliis ejus [Cyri] favebat." _Schneider_. "Cyro addicta et adjumento erat." _Kühner_. Compare v. 6. 23; Hellen. vii. 5. 5.] [Footnote 8: Ὅστις ---- τῶν παρὰ βασιλέως.] We must understand those who are called ἔφοδοι, Cyrop. viii. 6. 16: compare Œcon. iv. 6. _Zeune_. They were officers appointed to visit the satrapies annually, and make a report respecting the state of them to the king.] [Footnote 9: Οὕτω διατιθεὶς ἀπεπέμπετο, κ. τ. λ.] "He sent them all away (after) so disposing them, that they were friends rather to himself than the king."] [Footnote 10: By this term are meant chiefly the Asiatics that were about Cyrus. The Greeks called all people Barbarians that were not of their own nation.] [Footnote 11: Ἀποστῆναι πρὸς Κῦρον.] These words are regarded as spurious by Schneider, on the suggestion of Wolf and Wyttenbach. Krüger and Kühner retain them, as added _explicationis causá_.]