Igitur castris ad Babylona positis, quo maiore animo capesserent bellum universas vires in conspectum dedit et, circumdato vallo quod decem milium armatorum multitudinem caperet, Xerxis exemplo numerum copiarum iniit.
Accordingly, having encamped before Babylon, he made a display of all his forces, in order that they might enter upon the war with the greater confidence, and having built a circular enclosure, capable of containing a throng of 10,000 armed men, he began to number them as Xerxes had done.
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