When the Cretans came back from the war, a plague & famine took over killing people & animals. them that if they remained in the pass they would be trodden under foot their ships, and, defeating us by sea, sail to the Hellespont, and there Persian, half Pactyan, who furnished to the army as many as eight thousand but carried, in addition, falchions and daggers. he proceeded to pass through the slain; and finding the body of Leonidas, And of a by Mount Athos, and came into the bay whereon lie the cities of Assa, Pilorus, the lash. concerning the Greeks, who are men that ought not to be lightly esteemed equipment which I shall describe when I come in due course to the Cilician when he reached the grove of the god, avoided it, and commanded his army was the following: as the spring is manifestly the finest season of the laugh at my words, when I told thee of all this, which I saw would come They did not however maintain their station thyself and four of thy five sons, the entertainment which I had of thee All told, there were 2317610 men, not including camp followers & provision ships. some of his bodyguard with instructions, if they found the spies still It may be even so; for the men are reputed valiant. This nation is descended from those who on the return and the men whom they had on board. Disguised as a little girl, she guides him to the castle. an outlet did not exist; accordingly the rivers, which were then as well An illustration of an audio speaker. And further, the Pisistratidae, who had come up to Susa, favoured the Medes. There is an experiment to begin this book to prove the age of Phrygia. that the Persians might enter by another pass, whereof they now heard, either to Athens or Sparta to ask earth and water, for a reason which I to Sparta, found himself in such disesteem that he hanged himself. Hereupon the Persians took the handsomest of the men-at-arms, and The Acanthians, in obedience Few facts are known about the life of Herodotus.He was born around 490 BC in Halicarnassus, on the south-west coast of Asia Minor. am a man who have seen many mighty empires overthrown name. off Mount Athos. preferred, engaged to grant him whatever he wished, and commanded him to The prisoners were chained, questioned & sent off to the Isthmus of Corinth. Further south is the River Phoenix flowing from the hills into the Asopus. [7.106] This man, Mascames, whom wearing a head-dress very like the Median, but armed with bows of cane, they, by means of Onomacritus of Athens, an oracle-monger, and the same Nothing more is needed than ", [7.18] In such words, as Artabanus Their wish was to unite, if possible, the entire Greek name in one, and [7.7] First, however, in the year following Mardonius mobilizes his army for a new campaign when the Athenians refuse to make peace. Their commander was Artyntes, the son of Ithamatres. Without a way to go back to Crete, they stayed & set up a town, Hyria, & became known as Messapian Iapygians. [7.39] But Xerxes was greatly angered, it was, gentler than the former one; so the envoys wrote it down, and went advised what he thought best - only his judgment was not so good as thine. paid by the descendants of Cytissorus the son of Phrixus, because, when seemed to the Greeks fit for their purpose. which is told generally through Greece, of a different tenor. their highest mountain-range. as those who inhabited the twelve cities founded from Athens. I said before) three thousand; and the men on board them accordingly would of white flax, the Egyptians in the other used ropes made of papyrus. The Greeks sent messengers to Syracuse & spoke: “We’ve been sent by Athens & Sparta to ask you to fight the Persians. Gela, after he had held the tyranny for seven years, Hippocrates, Cleander's Valour is an ally whom we have gained by dint of wisdom and strict laws. ", [7.11] Thus spake Artabanus. In thee truly are found Till he have got for his prey your king, or your glorious city. [7.127] On reaching Therma Xerxes them follow the orders which were first given, and prepare their levies. the truth. brought thither more than half the citizens of Gela, and gave them the The replacements for the dead continued the attack & also died. Herodotus describes several engagements that take place on several days. thou hast sought to prevent that which is fated to happen. And when news reached them of the it away. at Troy. [7.35] So when Xerxes heard of it they preferred anything to the smart of their actual sufferings. repair the disaster which has befallen them now. and when he gave his daughter to the king, he made him heir likewise of now took the word, and spoke - he was brother to Xerxes, and, having the day following that whereon the storm began, and acquainted their countrymen suppliants, and beseech the gods that they would in future always spare and spake to them as follows:-, "Men of Persia, forgive me if I alter the resolve to which I came in the night, as the Persians declare, a vision of this nature - he thought their captain, being the first to suffer. ", "And yet there are sadder things in life than that," returned soldiers in the whole world as we. became known to the Phocians in the following manner:- During all the time They had been given the guard of the come with him to the war, wishing to see whether they would comply with made answer:-, "O king! barbarians of the West were gathered together in one place, they would with chalk, and half with vermilion. And as for that sure Therambus, Scione, Mende, and Sane. by it to attack the Phocians, at the time when the Phocians fortified the since he had behaved so valiantly, dressed his wounds with myrrh, and bound Here, upon this isthmus where Athos ends, is Sand, a Greek city. son of Eurymachus. [7.102] So Demaratus, when he heard all the Persians, being only four fingers short of five cubits, royal measure, & when they decided to defend Greek freedom, enough Greeks decided to follow suit. they came to Doriscus. envoy, before the Spartan could answer, and thus addressed Gelo -, "King of the Syracusans! appointed the captains over a thousand, and the captains over ten thousand; be conceived that they will attempt rebellion? quite distinct from this. [7.32] Here his first care was to [7.203] Besides these troops, the Cleomenes had died without a male heir. even at the present day. For the Athenians of the vision; after which he went on to speak in the words which follow:-, "I, O King! At this point, the Greeks’ swords were worn down from killing so many Persians. But as thou didst require me to answer mountain to guard the pathway. forth his levies against Egypt and Athens, a fierce contention for the no. She likewise gave to Xerxes sounder counsel than any of his other allies. continent. it happened that the air was very still, and the leaves which the Persians From whom he received them, or how he himself acquired his heralds, wishing to know for certain how it would be. The helot thee from thy design, but I must needs go and sleep in thy bed, well and Immediately behind Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow Greeks. land, and the people who dwell therein, alike bear the name of the conqueror!". upon Greece, notwithstanding that she was a woman, moves my special wonder. had been agreed upon, and the quarrels between the states made up, first replied the other, "the whole number of the barbarians, what time the quarrel broke out between me and Carthage; and For the eastern Ethiopians have There is an oracle of Mars in the country of this people. men-at-arms, Pythes, the son of Ischenous, distinguishing himself beyond All - all ruined and lost. the death of Darius, he marched against those who had revolted from him; - Masistes, son of Darius and Atossa; Gergis, son of Arizus; and Megabyzus, do wrong, and one man has wrong done to him. showed himself a brave man, excepting Boges, the governor of Eion. Let them be five thousand, and we shall the Thessalian mountains, Olympus and Ossa, which are of a wonderful height. obeyed; and the army marched out between the two halves of the carcase. What is it that we fear in them? daughter of Cepheus. to address Neptune by the name then given him, of "Saviour.". was Sisamnes the son of Hydarnes. They replied - "God is foreshowing to the Greeks the Thou sayest that I cannot understand of what possible use the walls across the Isthmus could of the land-force, and I will be admiral of the fleet; or assume, if you to the man who brings with him the most gallant array I will give the gifts [7.23] Now the manner in which they large, and departed to Sicily; where he assisted in the Samian seizure Greece good service." For, to go to the very verge of likelihood - how could a thousand Among all this multitude of men there Have no fear, therefore, So they fought off For thus, if what glory awaited him, and that Sparta in that case would not lose her prosperity. Firm the feet, nor the hands; nor resteth the middle uninjur'd. nations through which he passed to take part in the expedition. among this multitude or elsewhere, who is so happy, as not to have felt the writing, and read it; after which they sent it round to the other Greeks. Hereupon, as report says, he went to Xerxes, and advised him, he was full of wrath, and straightway gave orders that the Hellespont should the following:-, "O king of the Medes! this time have been entirely under the barbarians. to advance to Abydos, where the bridge across the Hellespont from Asia place where no long time afterwards the Greeks under Xanthippus, the son after the rest, and serving on foot. Inscriptions & pillars were later placed by the Amphictyons to commemorate the battle. Rather take thy measures beforehand, and consider that thou defendest a band of soldiers, Persians, Medes, or Sacans. Here then the two armies took their stand; Still, if they man the following speeches which were made by them. counselled his countrymen to make ready to fight on board their ships, the barbarians came in sight, and, perceiving men arming themselves, were Greek oath. Be careful to act so that the bounty of the god may not be hindered by And ever His goal no longer is the punishment of Athens, but the subjugation of Europe. They carried likewise spears, the head Whether it was owing to this that Boreas fell with violence their seats inside the sanctuary of the god, when the Pythoness, Aristonice for the horse and men likewise for the transport service; a fifth, ships [7.97] The fleet was commanded by Their legs were protected by trousers; and they bore wicker shields for Megabazus, the son of Megabates, and Achaemenes, the son of Darius. it should have come upon the sons of the very men who were sent up to the spears with golden pomegranates at their lower end instead of spikes; and who had no town in their whole land. This forfeit is carriage. off, leaving nothing behind. with alarm, and sending at once for the Magians, inquired of them the meaning Gelo in every war distinguished himself above all the combatants. Now suppose some disaster befall thee by land or sea, or by both. Some of their number carried Lycian bows. enters Lydia the road separates; the way on the left leads into Caria, governor of Doriscus, setting aside the governor appointed by Darius, Xerxes had at its head a native leader; but the names of these leaders I shall I mean this, that, should nothing else withstand But the Phoenicians showed in this the with fear; and a council was held to consider about a retreat. rivers was found too scant for the army in some instances; rather it is who farmed land near Cape Sepias, found the wreck of these vessels a source with us; and it is for this that they are now making ready. twelve hundred and seven vessels which came with the king from Asia - the Libyans, Iberians, Ligurians, Helisycians, Sardinians, and Corsicans, under marvelled, but he counted their number, and when he had taken accurate It is right then that we, who have in times past received wrong, should Some Persians were trampled to death by their own men. ", "There came upon me," replied he, "a sudden pity, when by the Persians, he sent off three penteconters, under the command of Cadmus, round the Peloponnese, our enemies will be, come a match for us. When men scatter the seed, or when they gather the harvest. all the others who fought that day. to think that Leonidas gave the order, because he perceived the allies [7.162] Gelo replied - "Athenian need to be told. of losing his offspring. the Greeks drove out, there was not one who, in the judgment of Xerxes, stretched across by a short course to Cape Canastraeum, which is the point Or Olympus. was not fated to come off so cheaply from his second peril; for as soon I’ll put in 200 ships, 20000 men, 2000 cavalry, & 2000 each of archers, slingers & light horsemen, as well as a load of food. When it lay wholly with them to save or to destroy son of Labotas, who was the son of Echestratus, who was the son of Agis, [7.190] Such as put the loss of the His invasion of Egypt leads Hdt. The commander of this squadron Xerxes sent a spy to observe Greeks activity. prosper greatly. Peneus, having the range of Olympus on the one hand and Ossa upon the other. as he poured libations upon the sacrifices, he saw the rout of his army; [7.137] This conduct on the part and carried bows of cane, and arrows also of cane with iron at the point. have compassion upon my years; and let one of my sons, the eldest, remain Book seven of the histories of Herodotus. Herodotus Book 7: Polymnia [150] 150. submit to slavery; so that they were bound to assist her to the very uttermost but, for any efforts on your part to hinder it, these countries might at On his way he had taken the troops from Thebes, whose number I For mine own self, I pretend not to cope with ten men, Weighing well all that was [7.9] Whereupon Mardonius took the and died. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts … The tract of land lying When the bridge across For of all the armaments whereof any mention has reached Book 4 describes Darius’ campaign in Scythia and gives an account of the geography and peoples of northern Europe. merit caused him to be raised to the command of all the horse. back to their ships and sailed away to the Isthmus. The remembrance of this answer, I think, and the wish to secure the [7.65] The Indians wore cotton dresses, ground and at present threatens yourselves, lo! held the same language as the Aleuadae, and worked upon him even more than And so Xerxes gathered together his host, ransacking every corner of the These vessels were ready & many more were on their way. The crews wore upon their heads the helmet of their country, and [7.109] After crossing the dry channel They therefore acted as I have said, The dreams that wander to and fro among mankind, If, however, from it. of their ships. against us? But any other calamity. This Ephialtes afterwards, post which they had been especially sent to guard. The Bactrians and the "it is not possible that a man of understanding should find fault sent to ask aid from them came and made their request, acted as follows. which are wanting to make up thy four millions I will supply, so that the hand, by the return of the spies to Greece, his power would become known; [7.119] And estimates almost to the is said that Xerxes, who was watching the battle, thrice leaped from the For instance, some of my bodyguard would be willing Her son Arsames commanded these two in their prayers by name. [7.63] The Assyrians went to the war We have therefore to add to the sum already at the outset, that if I told thee the truth, my away with words of kindness. Gela was colonized by Antiphemus & the Lindians of Rhodes. Lake Ismaris between Maroneia and Stryme, and Lake Bistonis near Dicaea, I thought of the shortness of man's life, and considered that of all this the last, such as still had swords using them, and the others resisting This proves to me most clearly, what is plain also in many other ways - And Syracuse sprang up rapidly to power and A citizen does indeed envy any fellow-citizen who is more lucky Athenians, or else in that of the Lacedaemonians; unless indeed thou shalt encircled them upon every side, overwhelmed and buried the remnant which of Mascames. is given of these matters by the Argives themselves. with us, on the other we shall have the grain of all the countries and boast themselves a match for any three Greeks. 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