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A campaign down the Maeander against disorganized communities of Asian Greeks would stiffen the troops, endow them with confidence.

The city of Tralles was now somewhat closer than Nysa was behind, and the gently tilting undulations of the river valley which threw the Maeander into so many wandering, winding turns were flushed gold, long light upon harvest stubble.

Asian militia was jubilant, and joined with the whole population of the Maeander valley in victory celebrations which lasted for many days.

I heard about its advent before you arrived in the east, but I thought it pointless to notify the governor, whose access to information was better than mine, but who had made no move to defend the Maeander valley.

A flood of red between the banks and the armed bodies rolling in it like the tumbling of debris in the swollen waters of the Maeander River in early spring, which he remembered from childhood.

Then there was heat no more, he was on the banks of the Maeander, in the land of his birth.

From invaders to pilgrims, everyone followed the route along the valley of the Maeander River between coastal Asia Minor and central Anatolia.

From Pessinus he proceeded into the Roman Asia Province down the long valley of the Maeander River.

Gaius Cassius picked up his two legions of militia outside Smyrna and took them up the valley of the Maeander into Phrygia on a line heading for the tiny trading settlement of Prymnessus.

Gaius Cassius learned of the fate which had befallen Quintus Oppius, he abandoned his militia in Apameia and fled on a sorry horse toward the coast at Miletus, keeping the Maeander River between himself and Mithridates, and traveling completely alone.

King came down the Maeander and headed north along the coast for one of his favorite cities, Ephesus.

March, following a good Roman road south through the valley of the Maeander River to Ceramus, where he negotiated the coast for as long as he could.

When Gaius Cassius learned of the fate which had befallen Quintus Oppius, he abandoned his militia in Apameia and fled on a sorry horse toward the coast at Miletus, keeping the Maeander River between himself and Mithridates, and traveling completely alone.

The King came down the Maeander and headed north along the coast for one of his favorite cities, Ephesus.

Closing their ranks upon their losses, they determined to strike inland along the valley of the Maeander to the apostolic city of Laodicea, perched among the Phrygian mountains, and thus avoid the flood swollen rivers and shorten the distance, as the crow flies, to Antioch, where all were now impatient to arrive.