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After having viewed the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus, Darius sailed back to the bridge, whose architect was Mandrocles of +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos; and when he had viewed the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaBosporus also, he set up two pillars of white marble by it, engraving on the one in Assyrian and on the other in Greek characters the names of all the nations that were in his army: all the nations subject to him. The full census of these, over and above the fleet, was seven hundred thousand men, including horsemen, and the number of ships assembled was six hundred.
After having viewed the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus, Darius sailed back to the bridge, whose architect was Mandrocles of +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos; and when he had viewed the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaBosporus also, he set up two pillars of white marble by it, engraving on the one in Assyrian and on the other in Greek characters the names of all the nations that were in his army: all the nations subject to him. The full census of these, over and above the fleet, was seven hundred thousand men, including horsemen, and the number of ships assembled was six hundred.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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