When Cyrus and his men had finished dinner and stationed guards, as was necessary, they went to rest. As for Croesus and his army, they fled straight towards Sardis , while the other contingents got away, each man as far as he could under cover of the night on his way toward home.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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