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τὴν Ἴδην δὲ λαβών, ἐς ἀριστερήν. With this stopping the meaning is that from Antandrus Xerxes turned inland, and after he had reached or occupied Ida, marched to the left, presumably down the valley of the Scamander to Troy. Xenophon, who marched along this route in the opposite direction from Ophryneum near Rhoeteum, past Troy to Antandrus, also speaks of going over Mount Ida (Anab. vii. 8. 7, 8). (See note, p. 416.)

πρῶτα. The second event is the panic (ch. 43. 2).

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