[161] Xen. Anab. iii, 4, 36-49; iii, 5, 3.
[162] Xen. Anab. iii, 5; iv, 1, 3. Probably the place where the Greeks quitted the Tigris to strike into the Karduchian mountains, was the neighborhood of Jezireh ibn Omar, the ancient Bezabde. It is here that farther march, up the eastern side of the Tigris, is rendered impracticable by the mountains closing in. Here the modern road crosses the Tigris by a bridge, from the eastern bank to the western (Koch, Zug der Zehn Tausend, p. 72).
[163] Xen. Anab. iv, 1, 12.
[164] Xen. Anab. iv, 3, 19-30.
[165] Xen. Anab. iv, 1, 18; iv, 2, 28.
[166] Xen. Anab. iv, 1, 21.
[167] Xen. Anab. iv, 2, 4.
[168] Xen. Anab. iv, 3, 17-21.
[169] Xen. Anab. iv, 3, 23.
[170] Xen. Anab. iv, 3, 2. His expressions have a simple emphasis which marks how unfading was the recollection of what he had suffered in Karduchia.