Histories

Thus Xerxes did this. He assigned the Phoenicians and Egyptians to make ropes of papyrus and white flax for the bridges,[*](leuko/linon is apparently not really flax but “Esparto grass,” imported from Spain [-4.000,40.000] (nation), EuropeSpain by the Phoenicians.) and to store provisions for his army, so that neither the army nor the beasts of burden would starve on the march to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.