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King Xerxes lay encamped in Trachis in Malis and the Hellenes in the pass.1 This place is called Thermopylae by most of the Hellenes, but by the natives and their neighbors Pylae.2 Each lay encamped in these places. Xerxes was master of everything to the north3 from Trachis, and the Hellenes of all that lay toward the south on the mainland.4

1 In the space between the eastern and western narrow ἔσοδοι.

2 “the Gates”, since it served as the entrance into Greece from the north. Thermopylae means “the Hot Gates”, from the warm springs there.

3 West, properly speaking; “southward” below should be “eastward.”

4 That is, Greece.

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