During that day and that night they remained on the bank of the river without knowing how to get out of that predicament, until Xenophon had a dream; he dreamed that he was loaded with chains and that they slipped off by themselves, so that he was free and could go where he wanted. u003ciu003eBook of the Teselas, u003c/iu003ea collection that consists of extracts from classic texts narrating a specific historical event, such as a battle, a murder, the eruption of Vesuvius.