Histories

Xerxes stayed for many days in the region of +Pieria [22.416,40.25] (department), Macedonia, Greece, Europe Pieria while a third part of his army was clearing a road over the Macedonian mountains so that the whole army might pass by that way to the Perrhaebian country. Now it was that the heralds who had been sent to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas to demand earth, some empty-handed, some bearing earth and water, returned.

Among those who paid that tribute were the Thessalians,[*](Not all the inhabitants of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly, here, but the tribe of that name which had settled in the Peneus valley and given its name to the surrounding peoples.)Dolopes, Enienes, Perrhaebians, Locrians, Magnesians, Melians, Achaeans of +Phthia [22.75,36.2667] (Perseus) Phthia, Thebans, and all the Boeotians except the men of +Thespiai [23.166,38.283] (inhabited place), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Thespiae and Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea.

Against all of these the Greeks who declared war with the foreigner entered into a sworn agreement, which was this: that if they should be victorious, they would dedicate to the god of Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi the possessions of all Greeks who had of free will surrendered themselves to the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks.