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tNVOYS SENT TO PROCURE VESSELS. 131 army would be unable to pass, the Thermodon and the Iris each three hundred feet in breadth, the Halys, two stadia 01 nearly a quarter of a mile in breadth, the Parthenius. also very considerable. Such an array of obstacles (he affirmed) rendered the project of marching through Paphlagonia impracticable; where- as the voyage by sea from Kotyora to Sinope, and from Sinope' to Herakleia, was easy ; and the transit from the latter place, either by sea to Byzantium, or by land across Thrace, yet easier. 1 Difficulties like these, apparently quite real, were more than sufficient to determine the vote of the army, already sick of march- ing and fighting, in favor of the sea-voyage ; though there were not wanting suspicions of the sincerity of Hekatonymus. But Xenophon, in communicating to the latter the decision of the army, distinctly apprised him that they would on no account permit themselves to be divided ; that they would either depart or remain all in a body, and that vessels must be provided sufficient for the transport of all. Hekatonymus desired them to send envoys of their own to Sinope to make the necessary arrangements. Three envoys were accordingly sent, Ariston, an Athenian, Kalima- chus, an Arcadian, and Samolas, an Achaean ; the Athenian, proba- bly, as possessing the talent of speaking in the Sinopian senate or assembly. 2 During the absence of these envoys, the army still continued near Kotyora with a market provided by the town, and with traders from Sinope and Herakleia in the camp. Such soldiers as had no money wherewith to purchase, subsisted by pillaging the neighboring frontier of Paphlagonia. 3 But they were receiving no pay ; every man was living on his own resources ; and instead of carrying back a handsome purse to Greece, as each soldier had hoped when he first took service under Cyrus, there seemed every prospect of their returning poorer than when they left home. 4 Moreover, the army was now moving onward without any definite purpose, with increasing dissatisfaction and decreasing discipline ; insomuch that Xenophon foresaw the difficulties which would beset the responsible commanders when they should come within the stricter restraints and obligations of the Grecian world. 1 Xen. Anab. v, 6, 4-11. 2 Xen. Anab. v, 6, 14. 3 Xen. Anab. v, 6, 19; vi, 1, 2. * Xen. Anab. vi, 4, 8 ; vi 2, 4