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[7] Although the Callians suffered so terribly that even Homer's account of the Laestrygones and the Cyclops1 does not seem outside the truth, yet they were duly and fully avenged. For out of their number of forty thousand eight hundred, there escaped of the barbarians to the camp at Thermopylae less than one half.

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