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Xerxes, as I have said, pursued his march from Doriscus against
Greece; and on his way he forced all the nations through which he
passed to take part in the expedition. For the whole country as far as
the frontiers of Thessaly had been (as I have already shown)
enslaved and made tributary to the king by the conquests of Megabazus,
and, more lately, of Mardonius. And first, after leaving
Doriscus, Xerxes passed the Samothracian fortresses, whereof
Mesambria is the farthermost as one goes toward the west. The next
city is Stryme, which belongs to Thasos. Midway between it and
Mesambria flows the river Lissus, which did not suffice to furnish
water for the army, but was drunk up and failed. This region was
formerly called Gallaica; now it bears the name of Briantica; but in
strict truth it likewise is really Ciconian.
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