When these appointed generals on their way from the king reached the Aleian plain in Cilicia [34.333,36.666] (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaCilicia, bringing with them a great and well-furnished army, they camped there and were overtaken by all the fleet that was assigned to each; there also arrived the transports for horses, which in the previous year Darius had bidden his tributary subjects to make ready.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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