Thence he marched two stages, ten
 parasangs, to Peltae, an inhabited city. There he remained three
 days, during which time Xenias the Arcadian celebrated the
 Lycaean In honour of Lycaean
 Zeus, i.e. Zeus of Mt. Lycaeus, in Arcadia . festival with sacrifice and
 held games; the prizes were golden strigils, and
 Cyrus himself was one of those who watched
 the games. Thence he marched two stages, twelve parasangs, to the
 inhabited city of Ceramon-agora, Or
 Tilemarket. the last Phrygian city as one goes toward
 Mysia . Thence he marched three stages, thirty parasangs, to
 Caystru-pedion, Or Ca
 sterfield. an inhabited city. There he remained five
 days. At this time he was owing the soldiers more than three months’
 pay, and they went again and again to his headquarters and demanded
 what was due them. He all the while expressed hopes, and was
 manifestly troubled; for it was not Cyru s’ way
 to withhold payment when he had money. At this juncture arrived Epyaxa, the wife of Syennesis, the king King in name, but in fact a
 dependent of the king of Persia . Syennesis was seeking, as the narrative
 indicates, to keep on good terms with both
 Cyrus and Artaxerxes, secretly aiding
 the former, while still making a show of resistance (see 21
 below) to his march. of the Cilicians, coming to visit
 Cyrus , and the story was that she gave him
 a large sum of money; at any rate, Cyrus paid
 the troops at that time four months’ wages. The Cilician queen was
 attended by a body-guard of Cilicians and Aspendians; and people
 said that Cyrus had intimate relations with the
 queen. Thence he marched two stages, ten
 parasangs, to the inhabited city of Thymbrium. There, alongside the
 road, was the so-called spring of Midas, the king of the Phrygians,
 at which Midas, according to the story, caught the satyr by mixing
 wine with the water of the spring. This story is less familiar than its sequel, viz. that for his
 kindly treatment of the satyr (Silenus) Midas was granted by
 Dionysus the fulfilment of any request he might make; he
 requested that all he touched should turn to gold, and so died
 of hunger. Thence he marched two stages, ten parasangs, to Tyriaeum, an
 inhabited city. There he remained three days. And the Cilician
 queen, as the report ran, asked Cyrus to
 exhibit his army to her; such an exhibition was what he desired to
 make, and accordingly he held a review of the Greeks and the
 barbarians on the plain.