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[12] So the generals called an assembly and made this announcement; and the soldiers were angry with the generals, and said that they had known about this for a long time, but had been keeping it from the troops; furthermore, they refused to go on unless they were given money,1 as were the men who made the journey with Cyrus before,2 when he went to visit his father; they had received the donation, even though they marched, not to battle, but merely because Cyrus' father summoned him.

1 The troops are not now asking for additional pay, as at Tarsus (Xen. Anab. 1.3.21), but for a special donation. See below.

2 See Xen. Anab. 1.1.2.

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