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Among them seem to have been the famous "Immortals" a picked body of 10,000 footmen, always maintained at exactly the same number, and thence deriving their appellation. The line of march from Sardis to Abydos was only partially along the shore. Some losses were incurred from the effects of a violent thunderstorm amid the mountains; but they cannot have been of a any great consequence.
We had however struck up an acquaintance, we were both alone, and until he left me on his way to Abydos we seem now to have been conversing all the time.
Not far from the Castle of Abydos lay the Turkish squadron, which had the audacity to fire on the British ships as they passed.
All these things conspired greatly to depress the spirits of the men, so that, at last, when they arrived in the vicinity of Abydos, the whole army was in a state of extreme dejection and despair. This, however, was of little consequence. The repose of a master so despotic and lofty as Xerxes is very little disturbed by the mental sorrows of his slaves.
When they reached Abydos their credentials were examined, and those who were found to be speakers of the truth and upright in their actions were allowed to continue their journey with the Sun-god, and to live with him ever after.
Addressing the people, he represented that Alcibiades had ruined their affairs and lost their ships by mere self-conceited neglect of his duties, committing the government of the army, in his absence, to men who gained his favor by drinking and scurrilous talking, whilst he wandered up and down at pleasure to raise money, giving himself up to every sort of luxury in Abydos and Ionia, at a time when the enemy's navy were on the watch close at hand.
In dynastic times there must have been great colleges at Heliopolis, Memphis, Abydos, and one or more places in the Delta, not to mention the smaller schools of priests which, probably existed at places on both sides of the Nile from Memphis to the south.
His "Corsair" and his "Bride of Abydos" appeared soon after the "Childe Harold," and added to his fame by their exquisite melody of rhyme and sentimental admiration for Oriental life, though even these were tinged with that abandon which afterwards made his latter poems a scandal and reproach.
I, pp. 5, 260 f. The artistic influence of Mesopotamia was even more widely spread than that of Egypt during the Persian period. This is suggested, for example, by the famous lion-weight discovered at Abydos in Mysia, the town on the Hellespont famed for the loves of Hero and Leander.
The Bridge of the Hellespont. Review of the Persian Armament at Abydos. Xerxes encamps at Therme. VI The Conduct of the Greeks. The Oracle relating to Salamis. Art of Themistocles. The Isthmian Congress. Embassies to Argos, Crete, Corcyra, and Syracuse. Their ill Success. The Thessalians send Envoys to the Isthmus. The Greeks advance to Tempe, but retreat.
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