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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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this canal may be seen. Early in the spring of B.C. 480, Xerxes left Sardis, the Lydian capital, forAbydos, on the Hellespont. Professor Greene, referring to the pomp and splen-dor of this march, says: The vast host was divided into two bodies of nearlyequal size, between which ample space was left for the great king and hisPersian guards. The baggage led the way, and was followed by one-half of thearmy, without any distinction of nations. Then after an interval came theretinue of the king. First of all marched a thousand Persian horsemen, fol-lowed by an equal number of Persian spearmen, the latter carrying spears withthe points downward, and ornamented at the other end with golden pome-granates. Behind them walked ten sacred horses, gorgeously caparisoned, bredon the Nisaean plain of Media; next the sacred car of Jove, drawn by eightwhite horses; and then Xerxes himself in a chariot, drawn by Nisaean horses.He was followed by a thousand spearmen and a thousand horsemen, correspond-
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FLIGHT OF MILTIADES Greece—The Army of Xerxes 197 ing to the two detachments which immediately preceded him. They were suc-ceeded by ten thousand Persian infantry, called the Immortals, because theirnumber was always maintained. Nine thousand of them had their spears orna-mented with pomegranates of silver at the reverse extremity; while the remain-ing thousand, who occupied the outer ranks, carried spears similarly adornedwith pomegranates of gold. After the Immortals came ten thousand Persiancavalry, who formed the rear of the royal retinue. Then, after an interval oftwo furlongs, the other half of the army followed. In this order the multitudinous host marched from Sardis to Abydos onthe Hellespont. Here a marble throne was erected for the monarch upon aneminence, from which he surveyed all the earth covered with his troops, and allthe sea crowded with his vessels. His heart swelled within him at the sightof such a vast assemblage of human beings; but his feelings of pride and pl

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