Cyrus met death and his oriental soldiers accepted defeat at cunaxa, some four days' march short of the goal.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
The Ten Thousand Greeks would in all likelihood never have got under Clearchus to cunaxa or anywhere within hundreds of miles of it, but for the fact that Cyrus was with them and the adherents of his rising star were supplying their wants and had cleared a road for them through Asia Minor and Syria.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
The place, then, in which the two armies were drawn out is called cunaxa, being about five hundred furlongs distant from Babylon.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
