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The sea force of the barbarians, with the exception of the fifteen
ships commanded (as I said) by Sandoces, came safe to Aphetae.
Xerxes meanwhile, with the land army, had proceeded through Thessaly
and Achaea, and three days earlier, had entered the territory of the
Malians. In Thessaly, he matched his own horses against the
Thessalian, which he heard were the best in Greece, but the Greek
coursers were left far behind in the race. All the rivers in this
region had water enough to supply his army, except only the
Onochonus; but in Achaea, the largest of the streams, the
Apidanus, barely held out.
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