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On reaching the Scamander, which was the first stream, of all that
they had crossed since they left Sardis, whose water failed them and
did not suffice to satisfy the thirst of men and cattle, Xerxes
ascended into the Pergamus of Priam, since he had a longing to behold
the place. When he had seen everything, and inquired into all
particulars, he made an offering of a thousand oxen to the Trojan
Minerva, while the Magians poured libations to the heroes who were
slain at Troy. The night after, a panic fell upon the camp: but in
the morning they set off with daylight, and skirting on the left hand
the towns Rhoeteum, Ophryneum, and Dardanus (which borders on
Abydos), on the right the Teucrians of Gergis, so reached Abydos.
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