[235] Xen. Anab. v, 8, 13-25.
[236] See the striking remarks of Thucydides (ii, 65) upon Perikles.
[237] Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 2. Πέμπει παρὰ τοὺς Ἕλληνας πρέσβεις, ἔχοντας ἵππους καὶ στολὰς καλάς, etc.
The horses sent were doubtless native Paphlagonian; the robes sent were probably the produce of the looms of Sinôpê and Kotyôra; just as the Thracian princes used to receive fine woven and metallic fabrics from Abdêra and the other Grecian colonies on their coast—ὑφαντὰ καὶ λεῖα, καὶ ἡ ἄλλη κατασκευὴ, 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 Paulus Emilius along with Perseus the last king of Macedonia (Livy, xlv, 33-35).
[238] Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 10-14.
[239] Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 22-31.
[240] Xen. Anab. vi, 1, 32.
[241] Xen. Anab. vi, 2, 11-16.
[242] Xenoph. Anab. vi. 3, 10-25; vi, 4, 11.
[243] Xen. Anab. vi, 5.