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Title: The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Herodotus Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902 Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, Sir, 1810-1895 Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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march of Xenophonfrom Troy to Pergamvis may conve-niently be compared with this portionof the route of Xerxes (ίντ^ΰθΐν 4πυρΐύ-οντο δια τηϊ Tpoias, καϊ ΰπζρβάι/τ(3 •ΤΊ)νΊδηΐ, els ΑντανΒρον α(ρικνοΰνταί -πρώτον(Ιτα τζαρα θάΚατταν πορίυόμίνοι τ-Τι$ Αυ-Sias, (Is 0-/;/3rjs ■weSioi. Έντΐΰθΐν διΆτραμυττίου καϊ Keprovlov παρ Άταρνΐο.els Καίκου veSiov (Κθΰντΐ$, ΐΐίρ•γαμον κα-ταλαμβάΐονσϊ τήϊ Mvaias. Anab. VII.viii. §§ 7, S). ^ The true Ida must have been leftconsiderably to the right, the armycrossing the ridge which extends fromit westward, and terminates in CapeBuha. Herodotus appears to have given *the name of Ida to the highlands which ;close in the valley of the Scamander onthe left, lying west and south of Bunar• :basht. (See the Chart on the followingpage.) D 2 ου TLAX OF THE COUNTRY NEAR TROY. Book Υ IT.
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0 ^c. Chap. 43, 44. XERXES VIEWS HIS ARMAMENT. 37 failed tlieni and did not suffice to satisfy tlie thirst of men andcattle, Xerxes ascended into the Pergamus of Priam/ since hehad a longing to behold the place. When he had seen every-thing, and inquired into all particulars, he made an offering of athousand oxen to the Trojan Minerva, \vhile the Magians pouredlibations to the heroes who were slain at Troy.^ The night after,a panic fell upon the camp: but in the morning they set offwith daylight, and skirting on the left hand the towns Ehoeteum,Ophryneum, and Dardanus ^ (which borders on xibydos), on theright the Teucrians of Gergis, so reached Abydos.^ 44. Arrived here, Xerxes wished to look upon all his host;so, as there was a throne of white marble upon a hill near thecity,*^ which they of Abydos had prepared beforehand, by the Kings ^ Though the Scamander of Hero-dotus (the modern ^lendcre) has a bedfrom 200 to 300 feet broad, yet thestream in the dry season is reduced toa slender

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