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1 Cyrus the Younger, whose later attempt to win the Persian throne is told in Xenophon's Anabasis. Persia had finally decided to throw its power behind the combatant which could not support a fleet without Persian assistance. Cyrus was sent down as "caranus (lord) of all those whose mustering-place is Castolus" (a plain probably near Sardis), i.e. as governor-general of Asia Minor (Xen. Hell. 1.4.3) with abundant funds and orders to support the Lacedaemonians in the war. This decision of the Great King was the death-knell of the Athenian Empire.
2 Cyrus was seventeen years of age.
3 A Persian coin containing about 125 grains of gold, worth approximately one pound sterling or five dollars.
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- Smith's Bio, Cratesi'ppidas
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- Smith's Bio, Dareius Ii. or Dareius Nothus
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- Isocrates, On the Peace, Isoc. 8 98
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