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Xenophon, Anabasis, with an English Translation by Carleton L. Brownson (1922; rpt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992 = Loeb Classical Library, 90), pp. 38-39 (1.4.6): ἐντεῦθεν ἐξελαύνει διὰ Συρίας σταθμὸν ἕνα παρασάγγας πέντε εἰς Μυρίανδον, πόλιν οἰκουμένην ὑπὸ Φοινίκων ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ... Thence Cyrus marched one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city on the sea coast, inhabited by Phoenicians... Brownson didn't translate διὰ Συρίας. Neither did Robin Waterfield: The next leg was a one-day march of five parasangs that brought him to Myriandus, a coastal city inhabited by Phoenicians. Wayne Ambler's translation is correct: From here Cyrus marched through Syria one stage, five parasangs, to Myriandus, a city inhabited by Phoenicians and on the sea. I don't see any variants in Wilhelm Gemoll's editio maior.

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