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So this part of the barbarian army marched as I have said, and others set forth with guides for the temple at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, keeping +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus on their right. These, too, laid waste to every part of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis which they occupied, burning the towns of the Panopeans and Daulii and Aeolidae.
So this part of the barbarian army marched as I have said, and others set forth with guides for the temple at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, keeping +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus on their right. These, too, laid waste to every part of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis which they occupied, burning the towns of the Panopeans and Daulii and Aeolidae.
[2] The purpose of their parting from the rest of the army and marching this way was that they might plunder the temple at
Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi and lay its wealth before
Xerxes, who (as I have been told) had better knowledge of the most notable possessions in the temple than of what he had left in his own palace, chiefly the offerings of
Croesus son of
Alyattes; so many had always spoken of them.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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