Histories

for they thought themselves overmatched; the reason of their making for the mainland was that they might be under the shelter of their army at Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale, which had been left by Xerxes' command behind the rest of his host to hold Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia. There were sixty thousand men in it, and Tigranes, the noblest and tallest man in Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia, was their general.