After this the enemy confined themselves to their own concerns, and 1 removed their households and property as far away as possible.  The Hellenes, on their side, were still awaiting the arrival of Cleander with the ships of war and transports, which ought to be there soon.  So each day they went out with the baggage animals and slaves and fearlessly brought in wheat and barley, wine and vegetables, millet and figs; since the district produced all good things, the olive alone excepted.  When the army stayed in camp to rest, pillaging parties were allowed to go out, and those who went out appropriated the spoils; but when the whole army went out, if any one went off apart and seized 2 anything, it was voted to be public property.  Ere long there was an ample abundance of supplies of all sorts, for marketables arrived from Hellenic cities on all sides, and marts were established.  Mariners coasting by, and hearing that a city was being founded and that there was a harbour, were glad to put in.  Even the hostile tribes dwelling in the neighbourhood presently began to send envoys to Xenophon.  It was he who was forming the place into a city, as they understood, and they would be glad to learn on what terms they might secure his friendship.  He made a point of introducing these visitors to the soldiers.

Meanwhile Cleander arrived with two ships of war, but not a single transport.  At the moment of his arrival, as it happened, the army had taken the field, and a separate party had gone off on a pillaging expedition into the hills and had captured a number of small cattle.  In thir apprehension of being deprived of them, these same people spoke to Dexippus (this was the same man who had made off from Trapezus with the fifty-oared galley), and urged him to save their sheep for them.  “Take some for yourself,” said they, “and give the rest back to us.”  So, without more ado, he drove off the soldiers standing near, who kept repeating that the spoil was public property.  Then off he went to Cleander.  “Here is an attempt,” said he, “at robbery.”  Cleander bade him to bring up the culprit to him.  Dexippus seized on some one, and was for haling him to the Spartan governor.  Just then Agasias came across him and rescued the man, who was a member of his company; and the rest of the soldiers present set to work to stone Dexippus, calling him “traitor.”  Things looked so ill that a number of the crew of the ships of war took fright and fled to the sea, and with the rest Cleander himself.  Xenophon and the other generals tried to hold the men back, assuring Cleander that the affair signified nothing at all, and that the origin of it was a decree pased by the army.  That was to blame, if anything.  But Cleander, goaded by Dexippus, and personally annoyed at the fright which he had experienced, threatened to sail away and publish an interdict against them, forbidding any city to receive them, as being public enemies. 9 For at this date the Lacedaemonians held sway over the whole Hellenic world.