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 144 HISTORY OF GREECE. The important public proceedings above described not only re- stored the influence of Xenophon, but also cleared off a great amount of bad feeling, and sensibly abated the bad habits, which had grown up in the army. A scene which speedily followed was not without effect in promoting cheerful and amicable sympathies. The Paphlagonian prince Korylas, weary of the desultory warfare carried on between the Greeks and the border inhabitants, sent envoys to the Greek camp with presents of horses and fine robes, 1 and with expressions of a wish to conclude peace. The Greek generals accepted the presents, and promised to submit the propo- sition to the army. But first they entertained the envoys at a ban- quet, providing at the same time games and dances, with other recreations amusing not only to them but also to the soldiers gener- ally. The various dances, warlike and pantomimic, of Thracians, Mysians, JEnianes, Magnetes, etc., are described by Xenophon in a lively and interesting manner. They were followed on the next day by an amicable convention concluded between the army and the Paphlagonians. 2 Not long afterwards, a number of transports, sufficient for the whole army, having been assembled from Herakleia and Sinope, all the soldiers were conveyed by sea to the latter place, pass- ing by the mouth of the rivers Thermodon, Iris, and Halys, which they would have found impracticable to cross in a land-march through Paphlagonia. Having reached Sinope after a day and a night of sailing with a fair wind, they were hospitably received, and lodged in the neighboring seaport of Armene, where the Sino- pians sent to them a large present of barley-meal and wine, and where they remained for five days. It was here that they were joined by Cheirisophus, whose ab- 1 Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 2. Heftnei irapu rot)f *E/U,7?vaf Trpeapetf, exovraf ITT^OVS Ac2 oro/laf /fa/laj, etc. The horses sent were doubtless native Paphlagonian ; the robes sent were probably the produce of the looms of Sinope and Kotyora ; just as the Thracian princes used to receive fine woven and metalic fabrics from Ab- dra and the other Grecian colonies on their coast iifyavrh /cat Aeta, nal fl &Mr) /caraovceuj), etc. (Thucyd. ii, 96). From the like industry probably proceeded the splendid " regia textilia " and abundance of gold and silver vessels, captured by the Roman general Paulas Emilius along with Perseus, the last king of Macedonia (Livy, xlv, 33-35)
 * Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 10-14.