number with these, and
neither at all more nor less; and so, being supposed equal in number
with the fighting body, they make up the same number of myriads as they.
Thus five hundred and twenty-eight myriads three thousand two hundred
and twenty 188 was the number of men whom Xerxes son of Dareios led as
far as Sepias and Thermopylai.

187. This is the number of the whole army of Xerxes; but of the women
who made bread for it, and of the concubines and eunuchs no man can
state any exact number, nor again of the draught-animals and other
beasts of burden or of the Indian hounds, which accompanied it, could
any one state the number by reason of their multitude: so that it does
not occur to me to wonder that the streams of some rivers should have
failed them, but I wonder rather how the provisions were sufficient
to feed so many myriads; for I find on computation that if each man
received a quart 189 of wheat every day and nothing more, there would be
expended every day eleven myriads of medimnoi 190 and three hundred and
forty medimnoi besides: and here I am not reckoning anything for the
women, eunuchs, baggage-animals, or dogs. Of all these men, amounting
to so many myriads, not one was for beauty and stature more worthy than
Xerxes himself to possess this power.

188. The fleet, I say, set forth and sailed: and when it had put in to
land in the region of Magnesia at the beach which is between the city of
Casthanaia and the headland of Sepias, the first of the ships which came
lay moored by the land and the others rode at anchor behind them; for,
as the beach was not large in extent, they lay at anchor with prows
projecting 191 towards the sea in an order which was eight ships deep.
For that night they lay thus; but at early dawn, after clear sky and
windless calm, the sea began to be violently agitated and a great storm
fell upon them with a strong East 192 Wind, that wind which they who
dwell about those parts call Hellespontias. Now as many of them as
perceived that the wind was rising and who were so moored that it was
possible for them to do so, drew up their ships on land before the storm
came, and both they and their ships escaped; but as for those of the
ships which it caught out at sea, some it cast away at the place called
Ipnoi 193 in Pelion and others on the beach, while some were wrecked
on the headland of Sepias itself, others at the city of Meliboia, and
others were thrown up on shore 194 at Casthanaia: