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constructor of it, Mandrocles the Samian, with gifts tenfold;[88] andas an offering from these Mandrocles had a painting made of figures topresent the whole scene of the bridge over the Bosphorus and kingDareios sitting in a prominent seat and his army crossing over; thishe caused to be painted and dedicated it as an offering in the templeof Hera, with the following inscription:"Bosphorus having bridged over, the straits fish-abounding, to HeraMandrocleës dedicates this, of his work to record;A crown on himself he set, and he brought to the Samians glory,And for Dareios performed everything after his mind."89. This memorial was made of him who constructed the bridge: andDareios, after he had rewarded Mandrocles with gifts, passed over intoEurope, having first commanded the Ionians to sail into the Pontus asfar as the river Ister, and when they arrived at the Ister, there towait for him, making a bridge meanwhile over the river; for the chiefof his naval force were the Ionians, the Aiolians and theHellespontians. So the fleet sailed through between the Kyanean rocksand made straight for the Ister; and then they sailed up the river atwo days' voyage from the sea and proceeded to make a bridge acrossthe neck, as it were, of the river, where the mouths of the Ister partoff. Dareios meanwhile, having crossed the Bosphorus on the floatingbridge, was advancing through Thrace, and when he came to the sourcesof the river Tearos he encamped for three days. 90. Now the Tearos issaid by those who dwell near it to be the best of all rivers, both inother respects which tend to healing and especially for curingdiseases of the skin[89] both in men and in horses: and its springsare thirty-eight in number, flowing all from the same rock, of whichsome are cold and others warm. The way to them is of equal length fromthe city of Heraion near Perinthos and from Apollonia upon the EuxineSea, that is to say two days' journey by each road. This Tearos runsinto the river Contadesdos and the Contadesdos into the Agrianes andthe Agrianes into the Hebros, which flows into the sea by the city ofAinos. 91. Dareios then, having come to this river and having encampedthere, was pleased with the river and set up a pillar there also, withan inscription as follows: "The head-springs of the river Tearos givethe best and fairest water of all rivers; and to them came leading anarmy against the Scythians the best and fairest of all men, Dareiosthe son of Hystaspes, of the Persians and of all the Continent king."These were the words which were there written.92. Dareios then set out from thence and came to another river whosename is Artescos, which flows through the land of the Odrysians.Having come to this river he did as follows:--he appointed a place forhis army and bade every man as he passed out by it place one stone in