Now in my own opinion the plans just
 proposed are nonsense; rather, I think we should send to
 Cyrus men of the proper sort, along
 with Clearchus, to ask him what use he wishes to make of us; and
 if his enterprise is like the sort of one in which he employed
 mercenaries before, As
 described in Xen. Anab.
 1.1.2 . I think that we also should follow
 him and not be more cowardly than those who went up with him on
 the former occasion; if, however, his enterprise is found
 to be greater and more laborious and more dangerous than the
 former one, we ought to demand that he should either offer
 sufficient persuasion i.e. in
 the form of extra pay. and lead us on with him, or
 yield to our persuasion and let us go home in friendship; for in
 this way, if we should follow him, we should follow as friends
 and zealous supporters, and if we should go back, we should go
 back in safety. I propose, further, that our representatives
 should report back to us whatever reply he may make, and that we
 after hearing it should deliberate about the matter. This plan was adopted, and they chose
 representatives and sent them with Clearchus; and they proceeded to
 put to Cyrus the questions resolved upon by the
 army. He replied that he had heard that Abrocomas, a foe of his, was
 at the Euphrates river, twelve stages distant. It was against him,
 therefore, he said, that he desired to march. And if he were there,
 he wished to inflict due punishment upon him; but if he has fled, he continued, we
 will deliberate about the matter then and there. Upon hearing this reply the deputies reported it to the soldiers, and
 they, while suspecting that Cyrus was leading
 them against the King, nevertheless thought it best to follow him.
 They asked, however, for more pay, and Cyrus 
 promised to give them all half as much again as they had been
 receiving before, namely, a daric and a half a month to each man
 instead of a daric; but as regards the suspicion that he was leading
 them against the King, no one heard it expressed even then—at any
 rate, not openly. Thence he marched two stages, ten
 parasangs, to the Psarus river, the width of which was three
 plethra. From there he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the
 Pyramus river, the width of which was a stadium. The stadium = 582 1/2 English
 feet. From there he marched two stages, fifteen
 parasangs, to Issus , the
 last city in Cilicia , a
 place situated on the sea, and large and prosperous.