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During the time that all these labours were in progress, the land army
which had been collected was marching with Xerxes towards Sardis,
having started from Critalla in Cappadocia. At this spot all the
host which was about to accompany the king in his passage across the
continent had been bidden to assemble. And here I have it not in my
power to mention which of the satraps was adjudged to have brought his
troops in the most gallant array, and on that account rewarded by the
king according to his promise; for I do not know whether this matter
ever came to a judgment. But it is certain that the host of Xerxes,
after crossing the river Halys, marched through Phrygia till it
reached the city of Celaenae. Here are the sources of the river
Maeander, and likewise of another stream of no less size, which bears
the name of Catarrhactes (or the Cataract); the last-named river
has its rise in the market-place of Celaenae, and empties itself into
the Maeander. Here, too, in this market-place, is hung up to view
the skin of the Silenus Marsyas, which Apollo, as the Phrygian
story goes, stripped off and placed there.
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