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After passing Parapotamii, the barbarians marched to Panopeis; and
now the army separated into two bodies, whereof one, which was the
more numerous and the stronger of the two, marched, under Xerxes
himself, towards Athens, entering Boeotia by the country of the
Orchomenians. The Boeotians had one and all embraced the cause of
the Medes; and their towns were in the possession of Macedonian
garrisons, whom Alexander had sent there, to make it manifest to
Xerxes that the Boeotians were on the Median side. Such then was
the road followed by one division of the barbarians.
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