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BATTLE OF CUNAXA. 103did not even await <strong>the</strong>ir attack, but melted away before <strong>the</strong>Greeks came within an arrow flight. The phalanx, instinctwith ardor, advanced in good order upon <strong>the</strong> main body <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> left wing, defeated it <strong>and</strong> pursued it some two miles.cz:)'GRllKCAMP.fi^"— T-"I?':X ./ys;: ss =Battle <strong>of</strong> Cunaxa, b. c. 401.Meanwhile Artaxerxes, seeing how far he overlapped Cyrus'left, ordered his right wing to wheel round upon it <strong>and</strong> takeit in reverse ; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> cavalry on <strong>the</strong> Persian left had attacked<strong>the</strong> cavalry which had supported <strong>the</strong> phalanx, had driven itback, <strong>and</strong> had made its way to <strong>the</strong> camp.Cyrus had held his body-guard in h<strong>and</strong> watching devel-

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