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Reliance on mere masses of men and abundance of gold is characteristically Persian. Cf. ch. 48, 103; Aesch. Pers. 235, 237 ὧδέ τις πάρεστιν αὐτοῖς ἀνδροπλήθεια στρατοῦ; | . . . | καὶ τί πρὸς τούτοισιν ἄλλο; πλοῦτος ἐξαρκὴς δόμοις;

For Mardonius' expedition cf. vi. 43 f., and especially vi. 45 n.

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