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Orders were then sent throughout the kingdom to get ready for war, and Xerxes said that he would lead the army himself. During eight years the constant drilling of troops, manufacture of arms, collecting of provisions, and construction of roads, were kept up all through Asia. A mighty fleet lay at anchor, and the king was almost ready to start.
There was a certain species of tree which grew in these countries called the plane-tree. Xerxes found one of these trees so large and beautiful that it attracted his special admiration. He took possession of it in his own name, and adorned it with golden chains, and set a guard over it.
The ports of Africa were immediately filled with the naval forces, at the head of which he prepared to invade Italy: and his fleet, when it cast anchor at the mouth of the Tyber, indeed surpassed the fleets of Xerxes and Alexander, if all the vessels, including the royal galley, and the smallest boat, did actually amount to the incredible number of three thousand two hundred.
Coward!” Xerxes plucked the whip from the charioteer’s hand and lashed it over the wretch’s shoulders. “By the fravashi, the soul of Darius my father, no man shall bring so foul a word to me and live!” “Compassion, Omnipotence, compassion!” groaned the man, writhing like a worm.
Most of the inhabitants of Tekrit are raftsmen by profession. Their rafts have been made in the same manner since before the days of Xerxes and Darius. Inflated goatskins are used as a basis for a platform of poles, cut in the up-stream forests. On these, starting from Diarbekr or Mosul, they float down all their goods.
The number is quite incredible; but though the exact number of the invading army cannot be determined, we may safely conclude, from all the circumstances of the case, that it was the largest ever assembled at any period of history. From Doriscus Xerxes his march along the coast through Thrace and Macedonia.
“It’s an X,” Maida answered in great perplexity. “I don’t believe that there are any names beginning with X except Xenophon and Xerxes.” “Well, mine’s as bad,” Laura laughed, “it’s a Z. I guess I’ll be Mrs. Zero.” “That’s nothing,” Arthur laughed, “mine’s an &—I can’t marry anybody named ——‘and.’”
Then truly would your mother Atossa have given Darius an heir right worthy the twenty kingdoms!” She gave a gentle laugh. “The Most High ordains the best. Have I not the noblest kingdom? Am I not your wife?” His laugh answered her. “Then I am greater than Xerxes. I love my empire the best!” He leaned again from the lattice, “O, fairest of cities, and we shall win it!
They proceeded, therefore, when established at their post in the throat of the pass, to adorn themselves for the approaching battle. In the mean time the armies of Xerxes were approaching.
Here they were amused with flattering promises, but the governors of that intriguing and factious state fitted out a fleet of sixty vessels, stationed near Pylos, off the coast of Sparta, to wait the issue of events assuring Xerxes, on the one hand, of their indisposition to oppose him, and pretending afterward to the Greeks, on the other, that the adverse winds alone prevented their taking share in the engagement at Salamis.
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