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Xerxes, after this, made preparations to advance to Abydos, where
the bridge across the Hellespont from Asia to Europe was lately
finished. Midway between Sestos and Madytus in the Hellespontine
Chersonese, and right over against Abydos, there is a rocky tongue
of land which runs out for some distance into the sea. This is the
place where no long time afterwards the Greeks under Xanthippus, the
son of Ariphron, took Artayctes the Persian, who was at that time
governor of Sestos, and nailed him living to a plank. He was the
Artayctes who brought women into the temple of Protesilaus at
Elaeus, and there was guilty of most unholy deeds.
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