SKETCH OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER.
(Introductory to the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks.)
In the year 423 B.C. Darius Nothus ascended the throne of Persia. That country was then the greatest empire in the world, and had an area nearly equal to that of the United States. The capital of this seemingly powerful realm was the ancient city of Babylon on the lower Euphrates. Here the Great King, as he was styled, had his principal palace, from which...
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