55 - Xenophon, Anabasis III
Cost of Glory
Xenophon Says, Let's Take the Cowards Root
Xenophon was one of the Greek officers who stood up against Persians. He said they should not let him join them, but deprive him of his captain see lay packs on his back and treat him as that sort of creature. The Persian king had been just waiting for their excuse to go Middle Eastern on us, he says.
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