mountain-freebooters

Updated: May 5, 2025

The object of the expedition was proclaimed to be an attack upon the mountain-freebooters of Pisidia; its real destination was a secret to every one except Cyrus himself and Clearchus. Among the Greek soldiers was Xenophon, an Athenian knight, to whom we owe a narrative of the expedition.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest