The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . After the prayer, he threwthe cup into the Hellespont, and a golden bowl, and a Persiansword, which they call acinace. But I cannot determine withcertainty, whether he dropped these things into the sea as an offer-ing to the sun, or whether he repented of having scourgedthe Hellespont, and presented these gifts to the sea as a compen-sation. These ceremonies finished, the infantry and all thecavalry crossed over by that bridge which was toward the Pontus ;and the beasts of burden and the attendants by that toward the^gea
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . After the prayer, he threwthe cup into the Hellespont, and a golden bowl, and a Persiansword, which they call acinace. But I cannot determine withcertainty, whether he dropped these things into the sea as an offer-ing to the sun, or whether he repented of having scourgedthe Hellespont, and presented these gifts to the sea as a compen-sation. These ceremonies finished, the infantry and all thecavalry crossed over by that bridge which was toward the Pontus ;and the beasts of burden and the attendants by that toward the^gean. I have heard that Xerxes crossed over last of all. Inseven days and seven nights without a halt his army this occasion it is related, that when Xerxes had crossed overthe Hellespont, a certain Hellespontine said : O Jupiter, why,assuming the form of a Persian, and taking the name of Xerxes,do you wish to subvert Greece, bringing all mankind with you ?since without them it was in your power to do this. ,|;;i|!]f| ,1 !i|Vl!| ,,t:i II {IH IiJIli lllllill,,. 2/4 HERODOTUS. Doriscus is a shore and extensive plain of Thrace. Through itflows a large river, the Hebrus. A royal fort had been built,and a Persian garrison had been established in it by Darius, fromthe time that he marched against the Scythians. At DoriscusXerxes numbered his army. The whole land forces were found tobe seventeen hundred thousand. They were computed in thismanner : having drawn together ten thousand men in one place,and crowded them as close together as it was possible, theytraced a circle on the outside ; removed the ten thousand, threwup a stone fence on the circle, a yard high, and made othersenter within the enclosed space, until they had in this mannercomputed all. The Persians were equipped as follows : On their headsthey wore loose coverings, called tiaras ; on the body various-colored sleeved breastplates, with iron scales like those of fisli ; andon their legs, loose trousers ; instead
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