Histories

Herodotus

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

Nevertheless, the Carystians got no respite from misfortune by doing this. The Parians, however, propitiated Themistocles with money and so escaped the force. So Themistocles went away from +Andros [24.9,37.816] (inhabited place), Nisos Andros, Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Andros and took money from the islanders, unknown to the other generals.

Those who were with Xerxes waited for a few days after the sea-fight and then marched away to Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia by the road by which they had come. Mardonius wanted to give the king safe conduct and thought the time of year unseasonable for war; it was better, he thought, to winter in +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly, and then attack the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese in the spring.