Phrygians and
Lydians, the army arrived at the city of Kydrara, where a pillar 3001
is fixed, set up by Croesus, which declares by an inscription that the
boundaries are there.

31. From Phrygia then he entered Lydia; and here the road parts into
two, and that which goes to the left leads towards Caria, while that
which goes to the right leads to Sardis; and travelling by this latter
road one must needs cross the river Maiander and pass by the city
of Callatebos, where men live whose trade it is to make honey of the
tamarisk-tree and of wheat-flour. By this road went Xerxes and found a
plane-tree, to which for its beauty he gave an adornment of gold, and
appointed that some one should have charge of it always in undying
succession; 31 and on the next day he came to the city of the Lydians.

32. Having come to Sardis he proceeded first to send heralds to Hellas,
to ask for earth and water, and also to give notice beforehand to
prepare meals for the king; except that he sent neither to Athens nor
Lacedemon to ask for earth, but to all the other States: and the reason
why he sent the second time to ask for earth and water was this,--as
many as had not given at the former time to Dareios when he sent, these
he thought would certainly give now by reason of their fear: this matter
it was about which he desired to have certain knowledge, and he sent
accordingly.

33. After this he made his preparations intending to march to Abydos:
and meanwhile they were bridging over the Hellespont from Asia to
Europe. Now there is in the Chersonese of the Hellespont between the
city of Sestos and Madytos, a broad foreland 32 running down into
the sea right opposite Abydos; this is the place where no long time
afterwards the Athenians under the command of Xanthippos the son of
Ariphron, having taken Artayctes a Persian, who was the governor of
Sestos, nailed him alive to a board with hands and feet extended (he was
the man who was wont to take women with him to the temple of Protesilaos
at Elaius and to do things there which are not lawful).

34. To this foreland they on whom this work was laid were making their
bridges, starting from Abydos, the Phenicians constructing the one with
ropes of white flax, and the Egyptians the other, which was made with
papyrus rope. Now from Abydos to the opposite shore is a distance of
seven furlongs. But when the strait had been bridged over, a great storm
came on and dashed together all the work that