Histories

The people of +Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus) Abdera would then have had no choice but to flee before Xerxes' coming, or to perish most miserably if they awaited him.

So the townsmen, oppressed as they were, nevertheless did as they were commanded. Upon leaving Acanthus, Xerxes sent his ships on their course away from him, giving orders to his generals that the fleet should await him at +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma, the town on the Thermaic gulf which gives the gulf its name, for this, he learned, was his shortest way.