The king, with the sacred chariot and horses passed over on the second day.

For seven days and seven nights the human stream flowed on without intermission across one bridge, while the attendants and the baggage-train made use of the other.

The lash was employed to quicken the movements of laggards.

At last the whole army was in Europe, and the march resumed its regularity.
It is unnecessary to follow in detail the advance of the host along the coast of Thrace, across Chalcidice, and round the Thermaic Gulf into Pieria.

If we except the counting of the fleet and army at Doriscus no circumstances of much interest diversified this portion of the march, which lay entirely through territories that had previously submitted to the Great King.