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While these events were
taking place, Xerxes set out from Thermopylae
and advanced through the territory of the Phocians, sacking the cities and destroying all
property in the countryside. Now the Phocians had chosen the cause of the Greeks, but seeing
that they were unable to offer resistance, the whole populace deserted all their cities and
fled for safety to the rugged regions about Mount Parnassus. Then the king passed through the territory of the Dorians, doing it no harm since they were
allies of the Persians. Here he left behind a portion of his army and ordered it to proceed to
Delphi, to burn the precinct of Apollo and to
carry off the votive offerings, while he advanced into Boeotia with the rest of the barbarians and encamped there. The force that had been dispatched to sack the oracle had proceeded as
far as the shrine of Athena Pronaea, but at that spot a great thunderstorm, accompanied by
incessant lightning, suddenly bu
Now it so happened that Gelon won his
victory on the same day that Leonidas and his soldiers were contesting against Xerxes at
Thermopylae,Hdt. 7.166 says that the battle of Himera took
place on the same day as the battle of Salamis. as if the deity intentionally so arranged that both the fairest
victory and the most honourable defeat should take place at the same time. After the battle at the city of the Himerans twenty warships made their
escape from the fight, being those which Hamilcar, to serve his routine requirements, had not
hauled up on shore. Consequently, although practically all the rest of the combatants were
either slain or taken prisoner, these vessels managed to set sail before they were noticed. But
they picked up many fugitives, and while heavily laden on this account, they encountered a
storm and were all lost. A handful only of survivors got safely to Carthage in a small boat to give their fellow citizens a
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