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King Xerxes lay encamped in +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis in Malis and the Hellenes in the pass.¹ This place is called +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae by most of the Hellenes, but by the natives and their neighbors Pylae.² Each lay encamped in these places. Xerxes was master of everything to the north³ from +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis, and the Hellenes of all that lay toward the south on the mainland.⁴

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[1] βασιλεὺς μὲν δὴ Ξέρξης ἐστρατοπεδεύετο τῆς Μηλίδος ἐν τῇ Τρηχινίῃ, οἱ δὲ δὴ Ἕλληνες ἐν τῇ διόδῳ. καλέεται δὲ ὁ χῶρος οὗτος ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν πλεόνων Ἑλλήνων Θερμοπύλαι, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων καὶ περιοίκων Πύλαι. ἐστρατοπεδεύοντο μέν νυν ἑκάτεροι ἐν τούτοισι τοῖσι χωρίοισι, ἐπεκράτεε δὲ ὃ μὲν τῶν πρὸς βορέην ἄνεμον ἐχόντων πάντων μέχρι Τρηχῖνος, οἳ δὲ τῶν πρὸς νότον καὶ μεσαμβρίην φερόντων τὸ ἐπὶ ταύτης τῆς ἠπείρου.

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1. In the space between the eastern and western narrow ἔσοδοι.

2. “the Gates”, since it served as the entrance into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece from the north. +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae means “the Hot Gates”, from the warm springs there.

3. West, properly speaking; “southward” below should be “eastward.”

4. That is, Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece.

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