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I will add a strong proof of this. It is certain that Xerxes on his
way back from Greece passed through Abdera, where he made a contract
of friendship with the inhabitants, and presented them with a golden
scymitar, and a tiara broidered with gold. The Abderites declare -
but I put no faith in this part of their story - that from the time of
the king's leaving Athens, he never once loosed his girdle till he
came to their city, since it was not till then that he felt himself in
safety. Now Abdera is nearer to the Hellespont than Eion and the
Strymon, where Xerxes, according to the other tale, took ship.
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