[Footnote 99: Ἐπὶ γάμῳ.] These words signify literally _for_ or _upon marriage_. The true interpretation, says Krüger, is, doubtless, "in order that he might have her, or live with her, in wedlock," the marriage ceremony having been, it would seem, previously performed at Babylon.] [Footnote 100: Πληγὰς ἐνέτεινον ἀλλήλοις.] Whether this signifies that they actually inflicted blows on one another, or only threatened them, may admit of some doubt. The former notion is adopted by the Latin translators, by Sturz in his Lexicon, and by the commentators generally.] [Footnote 101: See i. 7. 15.] [Footnote 102: i. 2. 22.] [Footnote 103: Zeune thinks that Xenophon may possibly mean himself; but this is mere conjecture.] [Footnote 104: Διελόντες.] An excellent conjectural emendation of Holtzmann for the old reading διελθόντες. _Kühner_.--The stratagem of Tissaphernes was similar to that by which Themistocles expedited the departure of Xerxes from Greece.] [Footnote 105: i. 7. 15.] CHAPTER V After a three days' halt on the river Zabatus, Clearchus endeavours to put an end to the distrust between the Persians and the Greeks by an interview with Tissaphernes. He is received so plausibly that he is induced to return on the following day, accompanied by five other generals and twenty captains, in expectation of being informed of the persons who had excited, by false reports, ill feelings between the two armies. The generals are conducted into the tent and put to death; the captains and those with them are massacred on the outside, one only escaping to tell the tale. Ariæus calls on the rest of the Greeks to surrender their arms, but is answered with defiance.