Histories

When these appointed generals on their way from the king reached the Aleian plain in Cilicia [34.333,36.666] (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaCilicia, bringing with them a great and well-furnished army, they camped there and were overtaken by all the fleet that was assigned to each; there also arrived the transports for horses, which in the previous year Darius had bidden his tributary subjects to make ready.