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νεότης ἐπέζεσε: a metaphor from water boiling over; cf. Ar. Thesmo. 468; Eur. Hec. 583. Xerxes must have been at least thirty-five, since he was probably born soon after the accession of Darius in 521 (cf. ch. 3. 2), and in 479 he had a grown-up son and daughter-in-law (ix. 108).

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