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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hyperides, Speeches | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Heracleidae (ed. David Kovacs) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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On the seventh day after the battle a regiment of Gauls attempted to go up to Oeta by way of Heracleia. Here too a narrow path rises just past the ruins of Trachis. There was also at that time a sanctuary of Athena above the Trachinian territory, and in it were votive offerings. So they hoped to ascend Oeta by this path and at the same time to get possession of the offerings in the temple in passing. They overcame the barbarians in out of their number of forty thousand eight hundred, there escaped of the barbarians to the camp at Thermopylae less than one half.
Meantime the Greeks at Thermopylae were faring as follows. There are two paths across Mount Oeta: the one above Trachis is very steep, and for the most part precipitous; the other, through the territory of the Aenianians, is easier for an army to cross. It was through this that on a former occasion Hydarnes the Persian passed to attack in the rear the Greeks und