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Journeying from the Strymon, the army passed by Argilus, a Greek town standing on a stretch of coast further westwards; the territory of this town and that which lies inland of it are called Bisaltia.
Journeying from the Strymon, the army passed by Argilus, a Greek town standing on a stretch of coast further westwards; the territory of this town and that which lies inland of it are called Bisaltia.
[2] From there, keeping on his left hand the gulf off
Poseideion,
Xerxes traversed the plain of
Syleus (as they call it), passing by the
Greek town of
Stagirus, and came to
Acanthus. He took along with him all these tribes and those that dwelt about the
Pangaean range, just as he did those previously mentioned, the men of the coast serving in his fleet and the inland men in his land army.
[3] The entire road along which king
Xerxes led his army the
Thracians neither break up nor sow, but they hold it in great reverence to this day.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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