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So Xerxes, despising the omens, marched forwards; and his land army
accompanied him. But the fleet held an opposite course, and, sailing
to the mouth of the Hellespont, made its way along the shore. Thus
the fleet proceeded westward, making for Cape Sarpedon, where the
orders were that it should await the coming up of the troops; but the
land army marched eastward along the Chersonese, leaving on the right
the tomb of Helle, the daughter of Athamas, and on the left the city
of Cardia. Having passed through the town which is called Agora,
they skirted the shores of the Gulf of Melas, and then crossed the
river Melas, whence the gulf takes its name, the waters of which they
found too scanty to supply the host. From this point their march was
to the west; and after passing Aenos, an Aeolian settlement, and
likewise Lake Stentoris, they came to Doriscus.
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