...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 Cilicia ns 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 t...