Histories

When Artemisia came, Xerxes bade all others withdraw, both Persian councillors and guards, and said to her: “It is Mardonius' advice that I should follow here and attack the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, for the Persians, he says, and the land army are not to blame for our disaster; of that they would willingly give proof.

Therefore he advises me to do this, or else he offers to choose three hundred thousand men of the army and deliver Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas to me enslaved, while I myself by his counsel march homeward with the rest of the host.

Now I ask of you, seeing that you correctly advised me against the late sea-fight, counsel me as to which of these two things would be best for me to do.”