Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When he saw the whole Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont covered with ships, and all the shores and plains of Abydus [26.416,40.2] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Abydos full of men, Xerxes first declared himself blessed, and then wept.