Histories

As Xerxes marched by this route, lions attacked the camels which carried his provisions; nightly they would come down out of their lairs and made havoc of the camels alone, seizing nothing else, man or beast of burden. I wonder what prevented the lions from touching anything but the camels, creatures which they had not seen and had no knowledge of until then.

In these parts there are many lions and wild oxen, whose horns are those very long ones which are brought into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. The boundary of the lions' country is the river Nestus which flows through +Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus) Abdera and the river Achelous which flows through +Akarnania (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Acarnania. Neither to the east of the Nestus anywhere in the nearer part of Europe (continent)Europe, nor to the west of the Achelous in the rest of the mainland, is any lion to be seen, but they are found in the country between those rivers.

When he had arrived at +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma, Xerxes quartered his army there. Its encampment by the sea covered all the space from +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma and the Mygdonian country to the rivers Lydias and Haliacmon, which unite their waters in one stream and so make the border between the Bottiaean and the Macedonian [*](Not the whole of Macedonia (region (general)), EuropeMacedonia, but the region originally ruled by the Temenid dynasty, between the rivers Haliacmon and +Vardar [22.833,40.583] (river), Europe Axius and the foothills of Bermius. +Edessa [22.0583,40.8] (Perseus) Edessa was the chief town.) territory.