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158 direct ditances between each tage amounts to 7665 Olympic tadia. If we add to this ⅛, or 958 tadia, for winding of the road, the comparative account will tand thus.

Ditance from Sardis to Thrapacus.

According to Xenophon, 8610 tadia.

Difference from Xenophon 13 tadia, or a 663d part of the whole ditance.

Surely this coincidence, in a pace of uch an extent, is a ufficient proof that Xenophon ued the Olympic tadium.

The above calculation for a day's march implies, no doubt, that it was accelerated beyond the uual rate; and that it was actually o, We are exprely told by Xenophon himelf. After having aid, that ome of the marches were very long, he adds, that "upon the whole, Cyrus appeared throughout to haten their march, topping no where, unles to get proviions, or for omething ele that was neceary; for he judged, that the quicker he marched, the more unprepared the king would be to encounter him, and the flower, the more numerous would be the king's army; for it was obvious to any peron of attention, that the Perian empire, though trong with regard to the extent of the country, and the numbers of men, was however weak by reaon of the great ditances of the places, and the diviion of its forces, when urprifed by a udden invaion ."