. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . Site of Xerxes Biidpe, opposi;e Xagiira -Na^. JMJnt, ,???:?? tlie I ast). Chap. 33-35. XERXES LASHES THE HELLESPOKT. 20 Madytiis^ in the Hellespontine Chersonese, and right overagainst Abydos, there is a rochy tongue of Land which runs outfor
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . Site of Xerxes Biidpe, opposi;e Xagiira -Na^. JMJnt, ,???:?? tlie I ast). Chap. 33-35. XERXES LASHES THE HELLESPOKT. 20 Madytiis^ in the Hellespontine Chersonese, and right overagainst Abydos, there is a rochy tongue of Land which runs outfor some distance into the sea. This is the place where nolong time afterAvards the Greeks under Xanthippus, the son ofAi-iphrou, took Artayctes the Persian, who was at that timegovernor of Sestos, and nailed him living to a * He wasthe Artayctes who brought women into the temple of Protesilaiisat Elaius, and there Avas guilty of most unholy deeds. o4. Towards this tongue of land then, the men to whom thebusiness was assigned, carried out a double bridge from Abydos;and while the Phoenicians constructed one line with cables ofwhite flax, the Egyptians in the other used ropes made ofpapyrus. Now it is seven furlongs across from Abydos to theopposite coast* When, therefore, the channel had been bridgedsuccessfully, it happened that a great storm arising broke thewhol
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