184 TERPSICHORE.

was delighted with the wise saying of his daughter,
and instantly retired. Aristagoras was never able to
obtain another audience of the king, and left Sparta
in disgust.

LII. In that space of country about which Cleo-
menes had inquired, the Persian king has various
atathmi, or mansions, with excellent inns; these are
all splendid and beautiful, the whole of the country is
richly cultivated, and the roads good and secure. Id
the regions of Lydia and Phrygia, twenty of the above
stathmi occur, within the space of ninety parasangs
and a half. Leaving Phrygia, you meet with the river
Halys, where there are gates which are strongly de­
fended, but which must be necessarily passed. Ad­
vancing through Cappadocia, to the confines of Cili­
cia, in the space of one hundred and four parasangs,
there are eight and twenty stathmi. At the entrance
of Cilicia are two necks of land, both well defended;
passing beyond which through the country, are three
stathmi in the space of fifteen parasangs and a half:
Cilicia, as well as Armenia, are terminated by the Eu­
phrates, which is only passable in vessels. In Armenia,
and within the space of fifty-six parasangs and a half,
there are fifteen stathmi, in which also are guards:
through this country flow the waters of four rivers,
the passage of which is indispensable, but can only be
effected in boats. Of these the first is the Tigris; by the
same name also the second and the third are distin­
guished, though they are by no means the same, nor
proceeding from the same source : of these latter the
one rises in Armenia, the other among the Matieni.
The fourth river is called the Gyndes, which was for­
merly divided by Cyrus into three hundred and sixty
channels. From Armenia to the country of the Matie­
ni, are four stathmi: from hence, through Cissia, as far
as the river Choaspes, there are eleven stathmi, and a
space of forty-two parasangs and a half. The Choas­
pes is also to be passed in boats, and beyond this Susa
is situated. Thus it appears, that from Sardis to Susa
are one hundred and eleven stations, or stathmi.

LIU. If this measurement of the royal road by
parasujigs, be accurate, and a parasang be supposed