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64 - Xenophon, Anabasis VII

Cost of Glory

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The Battle of Sufism

After this, there came in musicians blowing upon horns such as they use in giving signals and playing upon trumpets of raw oxide. And Sufi's himself got up, raised a war cry and sprang aside very nimbly as though avoiding a missile. They're entered after this also a company of buffoons. So that was the feast. And so they go on and start raiding. It's a very successful campaign rating taking suthis' ancestral lands back. Here's the conditions. There was deep snow on the plane. The water which they carried in for dinner and their wine in the jars would freeze. Many of the Greeks had their noses and ears frostbitten. Then it

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