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 20 HISTORY OF GREECE. Three days of farther march, (called twenty parasangs in all) brought the army to Ikonium, (now Konieh), the extreme city of Phrygia ; where Cyrus halted three days. He then marched for five days (thirty parasangs) through Lykaonia ; which country, as being out of his own satrapy, and even hostile, he allowed the Greeks to plunder. Lykaonia being immediately on the borders of Pisidia, its inhabitants were probably reckoned as Pisklians, since they were of the like predatory character : l so that Cyrus would be partially realizing the pretended purpose of his expedi tion. He thus, too, approached near to Mount Taurus, which separated him from Kilikia ; and he here sent the Kilikian prin cess, together with Menon and his division, over the mountain, by a pass shorter and more direct, but seemingly little frequented) and too difficult for the whole army ; in order that they might thus get straight into Kilikia, 2 in the rear of Syennesis, who was occupying the regular pass more to the northward. Intending to enter with his main body through this latter pass, Cyrus first proceeded through Kappadokia (four days' march, twenty-five parasangs) to Dana or Tyana, a flourishing city of Kappadokia ; where he halted tliree days, and where he put to death two Persian officers, on a charge of conspiring against him. 3 This regular pass over Taurus, the celebrated Tauri-Pylae or Kilikian Gates, was occupied by Syennesis. Though a road fit for vehicles, it was yet three thousand six hundred feet above the level of the sea, narrow, steep, bordered by high ground on each side, and crossed by a wall with gates, so that it could not be forced if ever so moderately defended. 4 But the Kilikian prince, 1 Xen. Anab. iii, 2, 25. 8 This shorter and more direct pass crosses the Taurus by Kizil-Ches- meh, Alan Buzuk, and Mizetli ; it led directly to the Kilikian seaport-town Soli, afterwards called Pompeiopolis. It is laid down in the Peutinger Tables as the road from Iconium to Pompeiopolis (Ainsworth, p. 40 seq. ; Chesney, Euph. and Tigr. ii, p. 209). 3 Xen. Anab. i, 2, 20. 4 Xen. Anab. i, 2, 21 ; Diodor. xiv, 20. See Mr. Kinneir, Travels in Asia Minor, p. 116 ; CoL Chesney, Euphrates and Tigris, vol. i, p. 293-354; and Mr. Ainsworth, Trarels in the Track of the Ten Thousand, p. 40 seq. ; also his other work, Travels in Asia Minor, vol. ii. ch. 30, p. 70-77 ; and Koch, Der Ztig der Zehc Tausend, p. 26-172, for a description of this mem wable pass.