12. The geography of Babylonia, including the site of the battlefield Cunaxa, is disputed. See R. D. Barnett, ‘Xenophon and the Wall of Media’,Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXXXIH, 1963, pp. 1-26.

13. Siglus is modern shekel. There were six obols in an Attic drachma.

14. Roman armies on occasion were reduced to similar straits of having to eat meat. Cf. Caesar,Gallic War, VII.17 and Tacitus,Annals, XIV.24.1