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REMONSTRANCE FROM THE SYNUHANS. 129 and plunder them ; which in fact they would have done, had thoy not been deterred by inauspicious sacrifices. 1 Near Kotyora, which was situated on the coast of the Tibare'ni, yet on the borders of Paphlagonia, they remained forty-five days,, still awaiting the appearance of Cheirisophus with the transports to carry them away by sea. The Sinopian harmost or governor, did not permit them to be welcomed in so friendly a manner as at Trapezus. No market was provided for them, nor were their sick admitted within the walls. But the fortifications of the town were not so constructed as to resist a Greek force, the like of which had never before been seen in those regions. The Greek generals found a weak point, made their way in, and took possession of a few houses for the accommodation of then- sick ; keeping a guard at the gate to secure free egress, but doing no farther violence to the citizens. They obtained their victuals partly from the Kotyorite villages, partly from the neighboring territory of Paphlagonia, until at length envoys arrived from Sinope to remonstrate against their proceedings. These envoys presented themselves before the assembled soldiers in the camp, when Hekatonymus, the chief and the most eloquent among them, began by complimenting the army upon their gallant exploits and retreat. He then complained of the injury which Kotyora and Sinope, as the mother city of Kotyora, had suffered at their hands, in violation of common Hellenic kinship. If such proceedings were continued, he intimated that Sinope' would be compelled in her own defence to seek alliance with the Paphlagonian prince Korylas, or any other barbaric auxil- iary who would lend them aid against the Greeks. 2 Xeno- phon replied that if the Kotyorites had sustained any damage, it was owing to their own ill-will and to the Sinopian harmost in the place ; that the generals were under the necessity of procuring subsistence for the soldiers, with house-room for the sick, and that they had taken nothing more ; that the sick men were lying within the town, but at their own cost, while the other soldiers were all encamped without ; that they had maintained cordial friendship with the Trapezuntines, and requited all their good offices ; that they sought no enemies except through necessity, being anxious 1 Xen. Anat>. v, 7, 18-25. 2 Xen. Anab. v, 5, 7-12. VOL. ix. 6* 9oc.