Histories

You say that you will bridge the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and march your army through Europe (continent)Europe to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Now suppose you happen to be defeated either by land or by sea, or even both; the men are said to be valiant, and we may well guess that it is so, since the Athenians alone destroyed the great army that followed Datis and Artaphrenes to Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica.

Suppose they do not succeed in both ways; but if they attack with their ships and prevail in a sea-fight, and then sail to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and destroy your bridge, that, O king, is the hour of peril.

It is from no wisdom of my own that I thus conjecture; it is because I know what disaster once almost overtook us, when your father, making a highway over the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaThracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every means of entreating the Ionians, who had been charged to guard the bridges of the Ister, to destroy the way of passage.[*](Cp. Hdt. 4.136 ff.)