The Histories · 7.45
And seeing all the Hellespont covered over with the ships, and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men, then Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man, and after that he fell to weeping.Read in context ›
Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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