Book 8
34.1
Passing Parapotamii, the foreigners came to Panopea. There their army parted into two companies. The greater and stronger part of the host marched with Xerxes himself towards Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens and broke into the territory of Orkhomenos (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeOrchomenus in Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia. Now the whole population of Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of Macedonia (region (general)), EuropeMacedonia sent by Alexander safeguarded their towns, each in his appointed place; the reason of the safeguarding was that Xerxes should see that the Boeotians were on the Persian side.
35.1
So this part of the barbarian army marched as I have said, and others set forth with guides for the temple at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, keeping +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus on their right. These, too, laid waste to every part of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis which they occupied, burning the towns of the Panopeans and Daulii and Aeolidae.
35.2
The purpose of their parting from the rest of the army and marching this way was that they might plunder the temple at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi and lay its wealth before Xerxes, who (as I have been told) had better knowledge of the most notable possessions in the temple than of what he had left in his own palace, chiefly the offerings of Croesus son of Alyattes; so many had always spoken of them.
36.1
When the Delphians learned all this, they were very much afraid, and in their great fear they inquired of the oracle whether they should bury the sacred treasure in the ground or take it away to another country. The god told them to move nothing, saying that he was able to protect what belonged to him.
