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18 HISTORY OF GREECE. of Kaystrus), where he halted for five days. Here his repose was disturbed by the murmurs of the Greek soldiers, who h:id received no pay for three months, (Xenophon had befoi'e told us that they were mostly men who had some means of their own), and who now flocked around his tent to press for their arrears. So impoverished was Cyrus by previous disbursements, perhaps also by remissions of tribute for the purpose of popularizing him- self, that he was utterly without money, and was obliged to put them off again with promises. And his march might well have ended here, had he not been rescued from embarrassment by the arrival of Epyaxa, wife of the Kilikian prince Syennesis, who brought to him a large sum of money, and enabled him to give to the Greek soldiers four months' pay at once. As to the Asiatic soldiers, it is probable that they received little beyond their main- tenance. Two ensuing days of march, still through Phrygia, brought the army to Thymbrium ; two more to Tyrioeum. Each day's march is called five parasangs 1 . It was here that Cyrus, halting three days, passed the army in review, to gratify the Kilikian princess Epyaxa, who was still accompanying the march. His Asiatic troops were first made to march in order before him, cavalry and infantry in then- separate divisions ; after which he himself in a chariot, and Epyaxa in a Harmamaxa, (a sort of carriage or litter covered with an awning which opened or shut at pleasure), passed all along the front of the Greek line, drawn up separately. The hoplites were marshalled four deep, all hi their best trim ; brazen helmets, purple tunics, greaves or leggings, and the shields rubbed bright, just taken out of the wrappers hi which they were one neighboring town and another, without much reference to saving of distance, and with no reference to any promotion of traffic between distant places. It was just about this time that King Archelaus began to "cut straight roads" in Macedonia, which Thucydides seems to note as a remarkable thing (ii, 100). 1 Neither Thymbrium, nor Tyriteum, can be identified. But it seems that both must have been situated on the line of road now followed by the caravans from Smyrna to Konieh (Ikonium,) which line of road follows a direction between the mountains called Emir Dagh on the north-east, and those called Sultan Fagh on the south-west (Koch, Der Zug der Zehn Tansend, p. 21,22).