Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ouths fromamong his best attendants, and as many of the finesthorses, and disposed them around the mound, themen astride of the horses, in ghastly imitation of amounted guard of honor. Stakes passed throughthe bodies maintain them in the required position. 7. Such were the country and nation whichDareios, surbly somewhat lightly, determined to in-vade, never doubting but that he would, withoutany very uncommon dif^culty, add it to his 71. CRFEK
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ouths fromamong his best attendants, and as many of the finesthorses, and disposed them around the mound, themen astride of the horses, in ghastly imitation of amounted guard of honor. Stakes passed throughthe bodies maintain them in the required position. 7. Such were the country and nation whichDareios, surbly somewhat lightly, determined to in-vade, never doubting but that he would, withoutany very uncommon dif^culty, add it to his 71. CRFEK VASE, FOUND AP KtRTfU (ANCIENT I-ANTICAI/EON). 423 4^4 MEDIA, , AND He would on the same occasion make sure of Thraciaand the Greek cities on both sides of the Bosporusand Hellespont, as well as of several Greek is said that one of his brothers entreated him todesist, and tried to make him realize the great dif^-culties he was goinij to encounter. But his mindwas made up, and he sent messengers to all theGreek cities of Asia Minor, with orders to equip andman six hundred ships with three rows of oars{trieres), which were to sail up to the Bosporus andthere to build a bridge of ships across the straits,while he himself collected the contingents of theseveral Asiatic nations. His army numbered 700,000when he led it from Susa. He found all doneand the fleet assembled when he arrived at the Bos-porus, which he immediately crossed, leaving thebridge in the charge of part of the fleet and theGreek cities along both sides on the Bosporus,although
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