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Darius, after rewarding Mandrocles, passed into Europe, while he
ordered the Ionians to enter the Pontus, and sail to the mouth of the
Ister. There he bade them throw a bridge across the stream and await
his coming. The Ionians, Aeolians, and Hellespontians were the
nations which furnished the chief strength of his navy. So the fleet,
threading the Cyanean Isles, proceeded straight to the Ister, and,
mounting the river to the point where its channels separate, a distance
of two days' voyage from the sea, yoked the neck of the stream.
Meantime Darius, who had crossed the Bosphorus by the bridge over
it, marched through Thrace; and happening upon the sources of the
Tearus, pitched his camp and made a stay of three days.
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