Histories

Darius marched through Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace to +Sestos [26.4,40.2833] (Perseus) Sestos on the Gelibolu Yarimadasi (peninsula), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaChersonesus; from there, he crossed over with his ships to Asia (continent)Asia, leaving Megabazus as his commander in Europe (continent)Europe, a Persian whom he once honored by saying among the Persians what I note here:

Darius was about to eat pomegranates, and no sooner had he opened the first of them than his brother Artabanus asked him what he would like to have as many of as there were seeds in his pomegranate; then Darius said that he would rather have that many men like Megabazus than make all Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas subject to him.

By speaking thus among Persians, the king honored Megabazus; and now he left him behind as his commander, at the head of eighty thousand of his army.

This Megabazus is forever remembered by the people of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont for replying,

when he was told at +Byzantium [28.95,41.0333] (Perseus) Byzantium that the people of Calchedon had founded their town seventeen years before the Byzantines had founded theirs, that the Calchedonians must at that time have been blind, for had they not been, they would never have chosen the worse site for their city when they might have had the better.