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But although Tissaphernes had promised to return very shortly, day after day went by, and still he did not come.
Meanwhile there was constant communication between the King's troops and those of Arieus, who had sworn to be the faithful friends and allies of the Hellenes, and who were encamped beside them among the Babylonian villages. The brothers and other relations of the general rode over to see him, and in like manner all the troops of Arieus, down to the humblest private soldier, received and returned the visits of their friends in the King's army, which was encamped at no great distance.