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ὁ Ξέρξης ... ἐδάκρυσε. Xerxes at the Hellespont affords an interesting contrast to Dareios on the Bosporos, 4. 85-88. He too does his sight-seeing, and has his pleasure, but dry-eyed. It was not possible to improve that occasion, once the moral had been exploited in this passage, any more than to reproduce the Army-list, though Dareios had all the forces of the empire with him: ἦγε δὲ πάντα τῶν ἦρχε, 4. 87. Cp. Introduction, § 10. One may easily reconcile this observation with the hypothesis of the prior composition of Bks. 7, 8, 9. It is difficult to discover a rule for Hdt.'s use of the article with Ξέρξης, but its effect is to give the name additional prominence for the moment.
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