Histories

Passing from Phrygia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Phrygia into Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia, he came to the place where the roads part; the road on the left leads to +Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Caria, the one on the right to Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis; on the latter the traveller must cross the river +Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander and pass by the city of Callatebus, where craftsmen make honey out of wheat and tamarisks. Xerxes went by this road and found a plane-tree, which he adorned with gold because of its beauty, and he assigned one of his immortals to guard it. On the next day he reached the city of the Lydians.