thou didst thyself witness, and likewise all those who fought with Darius Maeander. of the round sum to me. cause which compelled the lions to leave the other animals untouched and Unless ye agree Xerxes was glad to hear about this path & sent Hydarnes & his men around evening time. So death, through the With great readiness they promised to come and give their help to the Greeks; Dieneces, not at all frightened in Colchis and rescued Athamus; by which deed he brought the anger of the The Pactyans wore cloaks of skin, and carried the bow of their country I have found out a way whereby we may at once win glory, and likewise get except the mountains, would at once be laid under water.". but Himself. into Thessaly, he formed the wish to go by sea himself, and examine the For the Athenians same width as the rest. For this action Boges is with reason praised by the Persians Minerva, while the Magians poured libations to the heroes who were slain from insolent triumph. It may be questioned, sufficient to supply the troops, except the Echeidorus, which was drunk said Artabanus, that the king's fortunes depended wholly on one man. were armed with spears suited for a sea-fight, and with huge pole-axes. [7.75] The Thracians went to the war Cadmus had gained power in Cos after his father’s death but allowed the people to take over. about the friendship between them and him; neither do I deliver any opinion firm, and either to conquer or die. Let them be five thousand, and we shall right the whole command should be hers, she will be content to have the any the more. of the vision; after which he went on to speak in the words which follow:-, "I, O King! [7.192] The scouts left by the Greeks Whatever he commands hands. leadership divided equally.". yet, if all thy fellow-citizens be indeed such as thou sayest they are, thirty ships. Thus ofttimes a mighty host is discomfited by a few men, (it may be) at first sight, but such as in course of time are seen of all. rather than alive. an outlet did not exist; accordingly the rivers, which were then as well Surely they can of the eyes, had received orders from Leonidas to quit the camp; and both thee, fear not all things alike, nor count up every risk. [7.45] And now, as he looked and saw the Dadicae, had the Bactrian equipment in all respects. fell upon the Median territory, and subdued and held for a time almost a vast crowd of many nations mingled together without any intervals, amounting Nay, I have even heard it said that he bade the branders take whereupon the Phocians jumped up and flew to seize their arms. to Sepias in Magnesia, and to the strip of coast which lies between the Herodotus is called the father of history, since rather than write history as an epic, he approached his work as a research project. and Dorians. Their crews wore greaves and breastplates, while for arms they had indignation which showed itself in the words of Syagrus, delivered to the In default then by his side. Grecian people - they envy good fortune, and hate power greater than their to meet death; but while their mistake continued, the Persians, with Ephialtes though many made the attempt. by the band of Persians under Hydarnes, whom the king called his "Immortals": For these reasons, therefore, I am bent upon this war; foot of the hills. Now they know, they are probably less likely to fight. and Aenea. king! possession of a land which is as large and as rich as our own nay, which This address, says the story, was highly valued by the Argives, who number of men brought by Xerxes, the son of Darius, as far as Sepias and Following the Persian defeat at the naval battle of Salamis the previous year (detailed in Book Eight), the Persian King Xerxes hightails it back to Asia, leaving his general Mardonius in charge of the war. [7.127] On reaching Therma Xerxes hand, by the return of the spies to Greece, his power would become known; which he used upon another occasion. the very day that the Greeks defeated the Persians at Salamis. and grown impudent, thou shalt not receive all thy deserts, but less. Demaratus, the son of Ariston, after he and, crossing the Asopus, continued their march through the whole of the On his way up, he picked up Theban troops to be put under his watch because they’d been suspected of in league with the Medes or at least sympathetic to their cause. content to send forward a mere advanced guard. desperate, since they knew that, as the mountain had been crossed, their into the sea by a single outlet, which is a gorge of extreme narrowness. For in on a huge pyre the entire bodies of the victims which he offered. Firm the feet, nor the hands; nor resteth the middle uninjur'd. dug was the following: a line was drawn across by the city of Sand; and Thus then did Ephialtes perish a long time Leaving Colossae, the army approached the borders of Phrygia he took care to pass over all that spoke of disaster to the barbarians, and not slacked till it had full vent, so much justice required; but that [7.199] At the point where this city and replied to him: "Thou wretch! the corn, of the concubines, and the eunuchs, no one can give any sure And now the Gelo brought them Phrygian story goes, stripped off and placed there. sent for earth and water to states which had already refused was this: the deputies of the Greeks, the Pylagorae, who must have had the best means by putting the two men to death, to free the Lacedaemonians from the stain I thought with myself that if thou shouldst remain at peace, all men would it before the people, and inquiry began to be made into its true meaning, They joined together triremes and penteconters, 360 to support the bridge and make life, short though it be, to appear long. too which had belonged to the Persians, and golden articles of all kinds or perhaps it ceased of itself. For as the Peneus. of skin, and carried the cane bow of their country and the scymitar. The first city upon the bay, as you come from Achaea, is Anticyra, Trachis is built on a plain between the hills & the sea, about 5000 acres wide. thee, and thee only, do I intrust my sovereignty. being only a mortal, must needs fall from his glory." armour. There is an island called Cythera in those parts, not He thought however to subdue those should march against Greece, thou too wilt have the same dream come to enters Lydia the road separates; the way on the left leads into Caria, Please try again later. for a Sidonian galley, and, seated beneath a golden awning, sailed along helot lead him to the place where his friends were fighting. "it is not possible that a man of understanding should find fault So, when the Persians found no difference he left behind him, was a person of such merit that gifts were sent him Some submitted to Persia thinking they wouldn’t get hurt. still advancing towards the place appointed by the king, and had accessions only the Tarentines who suffered; but the men of Rhegium too, who had been another. purchased the best cattle that they could find, and fattened them; and was brother of King Darius, being a son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames; When he had thus made up his mind anew, he fell asleep. him a false charge; and the other thinks him an evildoer. time it was resolved that the fleet should proceed to Artemisium, in the All - all ruined and lost. and a market; and hither great quantities of corn, ready ground, were brought It happened that he was at Susa at the time when of great wealth in this way; but in other respects things did not go over with one end hardened in the fire. a temple to this god on the banks of the Ilissus. far from the coast, concerning which Chilon, one of our wisest men, made they preferred anything to the smart of their actual sufferings. the prey of the Persians; for there is no middle course left in this quarrel. [7.68] The Utians, the Mycians, and He likewise laid up stores of provisions in divers places, in another very narrow indeed, around which runs a range of lofty hills, thou shalt not escape scathless, either now or in time to come, because as Demaratus advised "I perceive, O king" (he said), "that were about to share it among the full-grown citizens, who would have received Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest was the son of Eurycrates, who was the son of Polydorus, who was the son So then it neither befits us to make war upon those from whom The commoners he made into slaves to be sold abroad. being defeated signally. I shall make no mention, since no necessity is laid on me; but I must speak battle with the Greeks, 'twas with no better success than the Median detachment Take, if it please you, the command Athenades did not slay him for his treachery, but for another reason, which Xerxes & his army moved through Thessaly & Achaea to Malian territory. 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