Histories

Herodotus

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

With that command he pretended to lead them into battle. As he came farther on his way, he saw the Persians already fleeing and accordingly led his men, no longer in the same array, but took to his heels and fled with all speed not to the wooden fort nor to the walled city of Thebes [23.3333,38.325] (Perseus) Thebes, but to +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis, so that he might make his way with all haste to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont.