Xenophon's Anabasis (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.9.29)

and Olynthians. From there he marched for three stages, twenty parasangs, to Celaenae, a large and prosperous inhabited city of Phrygia. There Cyrus had a palace and a large park full of wild animals, which he used to hunt on horseback whenever he wished to train himself and his horses. Through the middle of the park flows the Maeander River. Its springs are from the palace. It also flows through the city of Celaenae. There is also the palace of the Great King in Celaenae, fortified at the springs of the Marsyas River, beneath the citadel. This river also flows through the city and empties into the Maeander. The width of the Marsyas is twenty-five feet. There, it is said, Apollo flayed Marsyas after defeating him in a contest concerning skill, and hung his skin in the cave where the springs are. Because of this, the river is called Marsyas. There, it is said, Xerxes built these palaces and the citadel of Celaenae when he was retreating from Greece, defeated in battle. There Cyrus stayed for thirty days, and Clearchus the Lacedaemonian exile arrived, having one thousand hoplites, eight hundred Thracian peltasts, and two hundred Cretan archers. At the same time, Sosias the Syracusan was present, having one thousand hoplites, and Sophaenetus the Arcadian, having one thousand hoplites. There Cyrus held a review and a count of the Greeks in the park. And the total number was eleven thousand hoplites and about two thousand peltasts. From there he marched for two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Peltae. There he stayed for three days, during which Xenia the Arcadian celebrated the Lycaean festival and held games. The prizes were golden scrapers.