. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . to the throne by intriguing at the court of theaged king ; if her plans failed, Cyrus was pre-pared to risk everything by an appeal toarms. He realised that the Greeks wouldprove powerful auxiliaries in such a contin-gency ; and as soon as he had set up his court at Sardes,he planned how best to conciliate their favour, or at leastto win over those whose support was likely to be mostvaluable. Athens, as a maritime power, was not in aposition to support him in an enterprise which especiallyrequired the co-operation of a considerable fo
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . to the throne by intriguing at the court of theaged king ; if her plans failed, Cyrus was pre-pared to risk everything by an appeal toarms. He realised that the Greeks wouldprove powerful auxiliaries in such a contin-gency ; and as soon as he had set up his court at Sardes,he planned how best to conciliate their favour, or at leastto win over those whose support was likely to be mostvaluable. Athens, as a maritime power, was not in aposition to support him in an enterprise which especiallyrequired the co-operation of a considerable force of heavilyarmed infantry. He therefore deliberately espoused thecause of the Peloponnesians, and the support he gavethem was not without its influence on the issue of thestruggle: the terrible day of ^gos Potamos was a day 1 Cyrus was certainly not more than seventeen years old in 407 ,evening admitting that he was born immediately after his fathers accessionin 424-3 ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the coins in the Cabinet 280 THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD of triumpli for him as much as for the Lacedsemonians(405 ). His intimacy with Lysander, however, his constantenlistments of mercenary troops, and his secret dealingswith the neighbouring provinces, had already arousedsuspicion, and the satraps placed under his orders,especially Tissaphernes, accused him to the king oftreason. Darius summoned him to Susa to explain hisconduct (405 ), and he arrived just in time to bepresent at his fathers death (404), but too late to obtainhis designation as heir to the thronethrough the intervention of his mother,Parysatis; Arsaces inherited the crown,and assumed the name of entered the temple of PasargadseAKTAXERXEs surrcptitiouslv during the coronation cere-mony, with the intention of killing hisbrother at the foot of the altar; but Tissaphernes,warned by one of the priests, denounced him, and hewould have been put to deat
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