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From there they made ready to try to enter Cilicia . Now the entrance was by a wagon-road, exceedingly steep and impracticable for an army to pass if there was anybody to oppose it; and in fact, as report ran, Syennesis was upon the heights, guarding the entrance; therefore Cyrus remained for a day in the plain. On the following day, however, a messenger came with word that Syennesis had abandoned the heights, because he had learned that Menon’s army was already in Cilicia , on his own side of the mountains, and because, further, he was getting reports that triremes belonging to the Lacedaemonians 1 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos.
From there they made ready to try to enter Cilicia . Now the entrance was by a wagon-road, exceedingly steep and impracticable for an army to pass if there was anybody to oppose it; and in fact, as report ran, Syennesis was upon the heights, guarding the entrance; therefore Cyrus remained for a day in the plain. On the following day, however, a messenger came with word that Syennesis had abandoned the heights, because he had learned that Menon’s army was already in Cilicia , on his own side of the mountains, and because, further, he was getting reports that triremes belonging to the Lacedaemonians 1 and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos.
Anabasis. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921-1922.
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