STRAITS OF THERMOPYL.^. .309 
plain here, extending along the valley towards chap. 
Bodonitza: and there is no other place " ivithin ^ ^- > 
the ivali," where their camp could have been 
situate, as will presently appear. In the de- 
scription of the position held by the Greeks at 
Thermopyl^, Leonidas is represented as not 
being within sight of the Persian army ' ; which 
would have been the case if he had been any- 
where further advanced towards the north. 
When the Spartans composed the advanced 
guard, during the day upon which a person was 
sent by Xerxes to reconnoitre, they had de- 
scended from their camp, and were seen at the 
entry of the defile, ivithout the wall*, a little 
removed from the south-east side of the small 
bridge where the Turkish dervene now is, upon 
the outside of the old wall : — for these Straits 
are still guarded as a frontier pass ; and they 
are as much the Gates* of Greece as they were 
when Xerxes invaded the country ; neither is 
there any reason to doubt, that, with respect to 
(3) Vid. Herodot. Polymn. c. 208. p. 449. 
(4) Ibid, loco cit. 
(5) T«y /jCiy ouy vd'o'ho)), TliXa; xaXov(ri, xcc) <rrua, x.a) Qt((t»*iXaf ivTi 
yaa xa) 3iofia. TXr,(riov li'SaTU rifitufiiva us 'HoaKh'xou; /«ga. {Strab. Geog. 
lib. ix. \i. 691. ed. Oxon.) Livi/ mentions this Pass nearly in the 
same manner : " Ideo Pvli, et ab aliis, quia calida aqua in ipsis 
luucibus sunt, Thermopylae locus appellatur." Livii Hist. lib. xxxvi, 
f. 15. J}. 2(j6. torn. ill. ed. Crevier. 
