Histories

Now I advised Darius, your father and my brother, not to lead his army against the Scythians, who have no cities anywhere to dwell in. But he hoped to subdue the nomadic Scythians and would not obey me; he went on the expedition and returned after losing many gallant men from his army.

You, O king, are proposing to lead your armies against far better men than the Scythians—men who are said to be excellent warriors by sea and land. It is right that I should show you what danger there is in this.

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.