mothrakians, and also Zone, and of which the
extreme point is the promontory of Serreion, which is well known; and
the region belonged in ancient time to the Kikonians. To this beach then
they had brought in their ships, and having drawn them up on land they
were letting them get dry: and during this time he proceeded to number
the army at Doriscos.

60. Now of the number which each separate nation supplied I am not able
to give certain information, for this is not reported by any persons;
but of the whole land-army taken together the number proved to be one
hundred and seventy myriads: 53 and they numbered them throughout in
the following manner:--they gathered together in one place a body of
ten thousand men, and packing them together 54 as closely as they could,
they drew a circle round outside: and thus having drawn a circle round
and having let the ten thousand men go from it, they built a wall of
rough stones round the circumference of the circle, rising to the height
of a man's navel. Having made this, they caused others to go into the
space which had been built round, until they had in this manner numbered
them all throughout: and after they had numbered them, they ordered them
separately by nations.

61. Now those who served were as follows:--The Persians with this
equipment:--about their heads they had soft 55 felt caps called tiaras,
and about their body tunics of various colours with sleeves, presenting
the appearance of iron scales like those of a fish, 56 and about the
legs trousers; and instead of the ordinary shields they had shields of
wicker-work, 57 under which hung quivers; and they had short spears and
large bows and arrows of reed, and moreover daggers hanging by the right
thigh from the girdle: and they acknowledged as their commander Otanes
the father of Amestris the wife of Xerxes. Now these were called by the
Hellenes in ancient time Kephenes; by themselves however and by their
neighbours they were called Artaians: but when Perseus, the son of
Danae and Zeus, came to Kepheus the son of Belos 58 and took to wife
his daughter Andromeda, there was born to them a son to whom he gave
the name Perses, and this son he left behind there, for it chanced that
Kepheus had no male offspring: after him therefore this race was named.

62. The Medes served in the expedition equipped in precisely the same
manner; for this equipment is in fact Median and not Persian: and the
Medes acknowledged as their comman