(December 3, 2010 at 9:20 am)ziggystardust Wrote:(December 1, 2010 at 3:50 am)Chuck Wrote: That surely beats Durius ordering the water of the strait of be flogged with 500 lashes for daring to turn rough and sinking his pontoon bridge
Source please.
Herodotus Book VII
Quote:[34] To this foreland they on whom this work was laid were making their bridges, starting from Abydos, the Phenicians constructing the one with ropes of white flax, and the Egyptians the other, which was made with papyrus rope. Now from Abydos to the opposite shore is a distance of seven furlongs. But when the strait had been bridged over, a great storm came on and dashed together all the work that had been made and broke it up. [35] Then when Xerxes heard it he was exceedingly enraged, and bade them scourge the Hellespont with three hundred strokes of the lash and let down into the sea a pair of fetters.
They don't call him the Father of Lies for nothing!
