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The territory of Doriscus is in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace, a wide plain by the sea, and through it flows a great river, the +Maritsa [26.2,40.866] (river), Europe Hebrus; here had been built that royal fortress which is called Doriscus, and a Persian guard had been posted there by Darius ever since the time of his march against Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia.
The territory of Doriscus is in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace, a wide plain by the sea, and through it flows a great river, the +Maritsa [26.2,40.866] (river), Europe Hebrus; here had been built that royal fortress which is called Doriscus, and a Persian guard had been posted there by Darius ever since the time of his march against Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia.
[2] It seemed to
Xerxes to be a fit place for him to arrange and number his army, and he did so. All the ships had now arrived at
Doriscus, and the captains at
Xerxes' command brought them to the beach near
Doriscus, where stands the
Samothracian city of Sane, and Zone; at the end is
Serreum, a well-known headland. This country was in former days possessed by the
Cicones.
[3] To this beach they brought in their ships and hauled them up for rest. Meanwhile
Xerxes made a reckoning of his forces at
Doriscus.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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