There they remained three days; and the ships from Peloponnesus See Xen. Anab.
 1.2.21 . arrived to meet
 Cyrus , thirty-five in number, with
 Pythagoras the Lacedaemonian as admiral in command of them. They had
 been guided from Ephesus to Issus by Tamos the Egyptian, who was at the head of
 another fleet of twenty-five ships belonging to
 Cyrus —these latter being the ships with
 which Tamos had besieged Miletus , at the time when it was friendly to
 Tissaphernes, See Xen. Anab. 1.1.7 . and had
 supported Cyrus in his war upon
 Tissaphernes. Cheirisophus the Lacedaemonian also arrived with this fleet, coming
 in response to Cyru s’ summons, See note on Xen. Anab. 1.2.21 . These seven
 hundred hoplites under Cheirisophus had been sent by the
 Lacedaemonian authorities to aid Cyrus , and
 were the only troops in his army which stood in any official
 connection with any Greek state. together with seven
 hundred hoplites, over whom he continued to hold command in the army
 of Cyrus . And the ships lay at anchor alongside
 Cyru s’ tent. It was at Issus also that the Greek
 mercenaries who had been in the service of Abrocomas—four hundred
 hoplites—joined Cyrus , after deserting
 Abrocomas, and so bore a share in his expedition against the
 King. Thence he marched one stage, five
 parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria . These Gates consisted of two walls; the one
 on the hither, or Cilician, side was held by Syennesis and a
 garrison of Cilicians, while the one on the farther, the Syrian,
 side was reported to be guarded by a garrison of the King’s troops.
 And in the space between these walls flows a river named the Carsus,
 a plethrum in width. The entire distance from one wall to the other
 was three stadia; and it was not possible to effect a passage by
 force, for the pass was narrow, the walls reached down to the sea,
 and above the pass were precipitous rocks, while, besides, there
 were towers upon both the walls. It was because of this pass that Cyrus had sent
 for the fleet, in order that he might disembark hoplites between and
 beyond the walls and thus overpower the enemy if they should be
 keeping guard at the Syrian Gates—and that was precisely what
 Cyrus supposed Abrocomas would do, for he
 had a large army. Abrocomas, however, did not do so, but as soon as
 he heard that Cyrus was in Cilicia , he turned about in his
 journey from Phoenicia Of which Abrocomas was
 satrap. and marched off to join the King, with an army,
 so the report ran, of three hundred thousand men. Thence Cyrus 
 marched one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city on the sea
 coast, inhabited by Phoenicians; it was a trading place, and many
 merchant ships were lying at anchor there. There he remained seven
 days;