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[3] When the Persian army had assembled at the city of Ace1 it numbered two hundred thousand barbarians under the command of Pharnabazus and twenty thousand2 Greek mercenaries led by Iphicrates. The triremes numbered three hundred and the thirty-oared vessels two hundred. The number of those conveying food and other supplies was great.

1 Later St. Jean d'Acre, or simply Acre.

2 12,000 in Nepos, l.c.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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