Cum adierat Graecos, admonebat ab his gentibus illata Graeciae bella Darei prius, deinde Xerxis insolentia, aquam ipsos terramque poscentium, ut neque fontium haustum nec solitos cibos relinquerent deditis.
Whenever he came to Greek troops, he reminded them that it was by these nations that war had been made upon their country through the insolence first of Darius and then of Xerxes, who demanded from them earth and water, in order to leave to the surrendered neither a draught from their springs nor their usual food
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