This he said with regard in particular to the sons of Aleues, the Thessalians who were the first Greeks to surrender themselves to the king. Xerxes supposed that when they offered him friendship they spoke for the whole of their nation. After delivering this speech and seeing what he had come to see, he sailed back to +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma.

Xerxes stayed for many days in the region of +Pieria [22.416,40.25] (department), Macedonia, Greece, Europe Pieria while a third part of his army was clearing a road over the Macedonian mountains so that the whole army might pass by that way to the Perrhaebian country. Now it was that the heralds who had been sent to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas to demand earth, some empty-handed, some bearing earth and water, returned.

Among those who paid that tribute were the Thessalians,Not all the inhabitants of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly, here, but the tribe of that name which had settled in the Peneus valley and given its name to the surrounding peoples.Dolopes, Enienes, Perrhaebians, Locrians, Magnesians, Melians, Achaeans of +Phthia [22.75,36.2667] (Perseus) Phthia, Thebans, and all the Boeotians except the men of +Thespiai [23.166,38.283] (inhabited place), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Thespiae and Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea.