Histories

“The Lacedaemonians and the Heraclidae of Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta demand of you, king of the Medes, that you pay the penalty for the death of their king, whom you killed while he defended Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.” At that Xerxes laughed, and after a long while, he pointed to Mardonius, who chanced to be standing by him and said, “Then here is Mardonius, who shall pay those you speak of such penalty as befits them.”

So the herald took that response and departed, but Xerxes left Mardonius in +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly. He himself journeyed with all speed to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and came in forty-five days to the passage for crossing, bringing back with him as good as none (if one may say so) of his host.