Histories

He commanded that the sea receive these punishments and that the overseers of the bridge over the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont be beheaded.

So this was done by those who were appointed to the thankless honor, and new engineers set about making the bridges. They made the bridges as follows: in order to lighten the strain of the cables, they placed fifty-oared ships and triremes alongside each other, three hundred and sixty to bear the bridge nearest the Black Sea [38,42] (sea)Euxine sea, and three hundred and fourteen to bear the other; all lay obliquely to the line of the Black Sea [38,42] (sea)Pontus and parallel with the current of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont.[*](Or it may mean, as Stein thinks, that the ships of the upper or N.E. bridge were e)pikarsi/ai, and those of the lower or S.W. one were kata\ r(o/on. For a discussion of the various difficulties and interpretations of the whole passage, see How and Wells' notes, ad loc.)