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The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace and reached the
passage, entered their ships hastily and crossed the Hellespont to
Abydos. The bridges were not found stretched across the strait;
since a storm had broken and dispersed them. At Abydos the troops
halted, and, obtaining more abundant provision than they had yet got
upon their march, they fed without stint; from which cause, added to
the change in their water, great numbers of those who had hitherto
escaped perished. The remainder, together with Xerxes himself, came
safe to Sardis.
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