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Cyrus also watched the games. From there he marched for two stages, twelve parasangs, to the market of the Ceramians, the last city in the Mysian territory. From there he marched for three stages, thirty parasangs, to the plain of Caystrus, an inhabited city. There he stayed for five days, and pay was owed to the soldiers for more than three months. And often going to his doors, they demanded it. He led them on by speaking of hopes, and was clearly distressed. For it was not Cyrus’s custom not to pay when he had the funds. There Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, the King of the Cilicians, arrived to Cyrus, and it was said that she gave Cyrus much money. In any case, Cyrus then paid the army four months' pay. The Cilician queen also had guards around her, Cilicians and Aspendians. It was said
Cyrus also had an affair with her.
that he also had relations with the Cilician queen. From there he marched for two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Thymbrium. There, beside the road, was a spring called that of Midas, the King of the Phrygians, where it is said Midas caught the Satyr by mixing wine into the water. From there he marched for two stages, ten parasangs, to the inhabited city of Tyriaeum. There he stayed for three days. And it is said that the Cilician queen requested that Cyrus show her the army. Wishing to show it, he held a review on the plain of the Greeks and the barbarians. He ordered the Greeks, as was their custom for battle, to be drawn up and to stand, and for each commander to organize his own men. They were therefore drawn up four deep. Menon and those with him held the right, Clearchus and his men the left, and the other generals the center. Cyrus inspected the barbarians first, and they marched past in troops and