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When, however, his offerings were made, the army began to cross;
and the foot-soldiers, with the horsemen, passed over by one of the
bridges - that (namely) which lay towards the Euxine - while the
sumpter-beasts and the camp-followers passed by the other, which
looked on the Egean. Foremost went the Ten Thousand Persians, all
wearing garlands upon their heads; and after them a mixed multitude of
many nations. These crossed upon the first day.
On the next day the horsemen began the passage; and with them went the
soldiers who carried their spears with the point downwards, garlanded,
like the Ten Thousand; - then came the sacred horses and the sacred
chariot; next Xerxes with his lancers and the thousand horse; then
the rest of the army. At the same time the ships sailed over to the
opposite shore. According, however, to another account which I have
heard, the king crossed the last.
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