[103] Cf. Apollonius Rhodius, iv. 1284; Livy, xxii. i.
[104] This man was the most noted soothsayer of his time. Telmissus was a city of Caria, celebrated for the skill of its inhabitants in divination. Cf. Arrian (Anab. i. 25, ii. 18, iii. 2, iii. 7, iii. 15, iv. 4, iv. 15); Herodotus, i. 78; and Cicero (De Divinatione, i. 41).
[105] Diodorus (xvii. 17) says that there were 30,000 infantry and 4,500 cavalry. He gives the numbers in the different brigades as well as the names of the commanders. Plutarch (Life of Alexander, 15) says that the lowest numbers recorded were 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry; and the highest, 34,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry.
[106] This lake is near the mouth of the Strymon. It is called Prasias by Herodotus (v. 16). Its present name is Tak-hyno.
[107] This mountain is now called Pirnari. Xerxes took the same route when marching into Greece. See Herodotus, v. 16, vii. 112; Aeschўlus (Persae, 494); Euripides (Rhesus, 922, 972).
[108] Now called Maritza. See Theocritus, vii. 110.
[109] Cf. Homer (Iliad, ii. 701); Ovid (Epistolae Heroidum, xiii. 93); Herodotus (ix. 116).
[110] The Athenians supplied twenty ships of war. See Diodorus, xvii. 22.
[111] A landing-place in the north-west of Troas, near Cape Sigaeum.
[112] Cf. Diodorus, xvii. 17; Justin, xi. 5.