eer holding the reins, for no human creature mounts upon the seat
of that chariot. Then behind this came Xerxes himself in a chariot drawn
by Nesaian horses, and by the side of him rode a charioteer, whose name
was Patiramphes, son of Otanes a Persian.

41. Thus did Xerxes march forth out of Sardis; and he used to change,
whenever he was so disposed, from the chariot to a carriage. And behind
him went spearmen, the best and most noble of the Persians, a thousand
in number, holding their spear-points in the customary way; 42 and after
them another thousand horsemen chosen out from the Persians; and after
the horsemen ten thousand men chosen out from the remainder of the
Persians. This body went on foot; and of these a thousand had upon their
spears pomegranates of gold instead of the spikes at the butt-end, and
these enclosed the others round, while the remaining nine thousand were
within these and had silver pomegranates. And those also had golden
pomegranates who had their spear-points turned towards the earth, while
those who followed next after Xerxes had golden apples. Then to follow
the ten thousand there was appointed a body of ten thousand Persian
cavalry; and after the cavalry there was an interval of as much as two
furlongs. Then the rest of the host came marching without distinction.

42. So the army proceeded on its march from Lydia to the river Caicos
and the land of Mysia; and then setting forth from the Caicos and
keeping the mountain of Cane on the left hand, it marched through the
region of Atarneus to the city of Carene. From this it went through the
plain of Thebe, passing by the cities of Adramytteion and Antandros of
the Pelasgians; and taking mount Ida on the left hand, it came on to the
land of Ilion. And first, when it had stopped for the night close under
mount Ida, thunder and bolts of lightning fell upon it, and destroyed
here in this place a very large number of men. 43

43. Then when the army had come to the river Scamander,--which of all
rivers to which they had come, since they set forth from Sardis and
undertook their march, was the first of which the stream failed and
was not sufficient for the drinking of the army and of the animals
with it,--when, I say, Xerxes had come to this river, he went up to the
Citadel of Priam, 44 having a desire to see it; and having seen it
and learnt by inquiry of all those matters severally, he sacrificed a
thousand heifers to Athene of Ilion, and the Magi