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After three more days of marching, there arrived at the camp of Cyrus some deserters, who informed him that the King's army was close at hand.
He could hardly have been much surprised at the news that Artaxerxes was approaching; the only wonder was that he had tarried so long, for he had heard from Tissaphernes of the revolt of Cyrus in little more than a month from the time that the expedition had set out from Sardis.