The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . onius, seeing Xerxes much af-flicted by the defeat at Salamis, and celes ridden by a he was meditating a retreat, thus addressed theking: Sire, do not think you have suffered any great lossin consequence of what has happened ; for the contest with usdoes not depend on wood alone, but on men and horses. Be notdiscouraged; for the Greeks have no means of escape fromrendering an account of what they have done now and formerly,and from becoming your slaves. If you have resolved not to stayhere, return to Sus
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . onius, seeing Xerxes much af-flicted by the defeat at Salamis, and celes ridden by a he was meditating a retreat, thus addressed theking: Sire, do not think you have suffered any great lossin consequence of what has happened ; for the contest with usdoes not depend on wood alone, but on men and horses. Be notdiscouraged; for the Greeks have no means of escape fromrendering an account of what they have done now and formerly,and from becoming your slaves. If you have resolved not to stayhere, return to Susa, and take with you the greatest part ofthe army ; but give me three hundred thousand picked men and Iwill deliver Greece to you reduced to slavery. Xerxes, delightedand relieved, granted Mardonius his request. As to Xerxes him-self, if all the men and women of the world had advised himto stay, in my opinion, he would not have yielded, so greatwas his terror. Leaving Mardonius in Thessaly, he marchedin all haste to the Hellespont ; and arrived at the place of crossing. 304 HERODOTUS. in forty-tive days, bringing back no part of his army, so to , and among wliatever nation, they happened to bemarching, they seized and consumed their corn ; but if they foundno fruit, overcome by hunger, they ate up the herbage as it sprungfrom the ground, and from sheer hunger stripped off the barkof trees, and gathered leaves, both of wild and cultivated a pestilence and dysentery falling on the army, destroyed themon their march. Such of them as were sick, Xerxes left behind,ordering the cities through which he happened to be passing, totake care of and feed them : some in Thessaly, others at Siris ofPseonia, and in Macedonia. It was here he had left the sacredchariot of Jupiter, when he marched against Greece, but he did notreceive it back, as he returned ; for the Paeonians had given itto the Thracians, and when Xerxes demanded it back, said that themares had been st
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