Dat. 8.1Haec etsī Autophrodatēs vidēbat, tamen statim māluit congredī quam cum tantīs cōpiīs refugere aut tam diū ūnō locō sedēre.Although Autophradates saw this, he still preferred to engage at once rather than retreat with such great forces or sit so long in one place. Dat. 8.2Habēbat barbarōrum equitum vīgintī, peditum centum mīlia, quōs illī Cardacas appellant, eiusdemque generis tria mīlia funditōrum, praetereā Cappadocum octō mīlia, Armeniōrum decem mīlia, Paphlagonum quīnque mīlia, Phrygum decem mīlia, Lȳdōrum quīnque mīlia, Aspendiōrum et Pisidārum circiter tria mīlia, Cilicum duo mīlia, Captiānōrum totidem, ex Graeciā conductōrum tria mīlia, levis armātūrae maximum numerum.He had twenty thousand barbarian cavalry and a hundred thousand infantry, whom they call Cardaces, and three thousand slingers of the same race, besides eight thousand Cappadocians, ten thousand Armenians, five thousand Paphlagonians, ten thousand Phrygians, five thousand Lydians, about three thousand Aspendians and Pisidians, two thousand Cilicians, as many Captianians, three thousand hired from Greece, and a very great number of light-armed troops. Dat. 8.3Hās adversus cōpiās spēs omnis cōnsistēbat Datamī in sē locīque nātūrā (namque huius partem nōn habēbat vīcēsimam mīlitum).Against these forces all Datames' hope rested in himself and in the nature of the ground (for he did not have a twentieth part of this number of soldiers).
Dat. 8.3Quibus frētus cōnflīxit adversāriōrumque multa mīlia concīdit, cum dē ipsīus exercitū nōn amplius hominum mīlle cecidisset.Relying on these, he joined battle and cut down many thousands of his opponents, while of his own army no more than a thousand men fell. Dat. 8.3Quam ob causam posterō diē tropaeum posuit, quō locō prīdiē pugnātum erat.For this reason on the following day he set up a trophy on the spot where the battle had been fought the day before. Dat. 8.4Hinc cum castra mōvisset semperque īnferior cōpiīs superior omnibus proeliīs discēderet, quod numquam manum cōnsereret, nisi cum adversāriōs locōrum angustiīs clausisset, quod perītō regiōnum callidēque cōgitantī saepe accidēbat, Autophrodatēs, cum bellum dūcī maiōre rēgis calamitāte quam adversāriōrum vidēret, pācem amīcitiamque prīstinam memorāns eum hortātus est, ut cum rēge in grātiam redīret.When he had moved camp from there and, though always inferior in forces, always came off superior in every battle, because he never joined combat unless he had shut his opponents into narrow places, which often happened to a man who knew the country and planned cunningly, Autophradates, seeing that the war was being prolonged with greater loss to the king than to his opponents, reminded him of peace and their former friendship and urged him to return to favour with the king.
Dat. 8.6Quam ille etsī fīdam nōn fore putābat, tamen condiciōnem accēpit sēque ad Artaxerxem lēgātōs missūrum dīxit.Although Datames thought it would not be trustworthy, he nevertheless accepted the terms and said that he would send envoys to Artaxerxes. Dat. 8.6Sīc bellum, quod rēx adversus Datamēn suscēperat, sēdātum est.So the war which the king had undertaken against Datames was settled. Dat. 8.6Autophrodatēs in Phrygiam sē recēpit.Autophradates withdrew into Phrygia.