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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s from afar with groans and cries of lamentation.Night at length unveils her sombre face and separates thecombatants.^ The advantage lay that day with the Greeks,but hostilities might be resumed on the morrow, and theresources of the Persians were so considerable that theirchances of victory were not yet exhausted. Xerxes at firstshowed signs of wishing to continue the struggle; herepaired the, injured vessels and ordered a dyke to beconstructed, which, by uniting Salamis to the mainland,would enable him to oust the Athenians from their lastretreat. But he had never exhibited much zest for thewar; the inevitable fatigues and dangers of a campaignwere irksome to his indolent nature, and winter wasapproaching, which he would be obliged to spend far fromSusa, in the midst of a country wasted and trampled ^ ^schylus gives the only contemporaneous account of the battle, andthe one which Herodotus and all the historians after him have paraphrased,while they also added to it oral traditions.
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MARDONIUS AND HIS ARMY 235 underfoot by two great armies. Mardonius, guessing whatwas passing in his sovereigns mind, advised him to takeadvantage of the fine autumn weather to return to Sardes;he proposed to take over from Xerxes the command of thearmy in Greece, and to set to work to complete theconquest of the Peloponnesus. He was probably glad tobe rid of a sovereign whose luxurious habits were ahindrance to his movements. Xerxes accepted his pro-posal with evident satisfaction, and summarily despatch-ing his vessels to the Hellespont to guard the bridges,he set out on his return journey by the overlandroute. At the time of his departure the issue of the strugglewas as yet unforeseen. Mardonius evacuated Attica,which was too poor and desolate a country to supportso large an army, and occupied comfortable winter quartersin the rich plains of Thessaly, where he recruited hisstrength for a supreme effort in the spring. He hadwith him about 60,000 men, picked troops from all partsof A

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