Histories

Herodotus

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

Fear and dread possessed the Hellenes, especially those from the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese. They were afraid because they were stationed in Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis and were about to fight at sea on behalf of the land of the Athenians, and if they were defeated they would be trapped on an island and besieged, leaving their own land unguarded.

That very night the land army of the barbarians began marching to the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese. Yet every possible device had been used to prevent the barbarians from invading by the mainland. As soon as the Peloponnesians learned that Leonidas and his men at +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae were dead, they ran together from their cities and took up their position at the Isthmus. Their general was Cleombrotus son of Anaxandrides, the brother of Leonidas.