The Twitter Herodotus

7.191 Many provision boats were lost too. By sacrificing, etc., the Magi got the wind to stop on the 4th day--unless it stopped on its own.

7.192 After the storm the Greeks at Chalcis heard about the damage the Persian fleet had sustained. They hurried back to Artemisium.

7.193 The Persians, meanwhile, sailed from Sepias, rounded the Cape of Magnesia, and anchored at Aphetae.

7.194 15 Persian ships, lagging behind the rest, accidentally sailed toward Artemisium rather than Aphetae. The Greeks easily captured them.

7.195 The Greeks interrogated their prisoners, then sent them in bonds to the Isthmus of Corinth.

7.196 Xerxes, meanwhile, marched south with the land army through Thessaly and Achaea. He arrived in Malis three days after the fleet.

7.197 In Achaea X was told the story of why the Achaeans, in accordance w/an oracle, punish the 1st-born descendants of a guy named Phrixus.

7.198 Xerxes marched into Malis along the gulf. The land is flat, bounded inland by mtns & crossed by the Spercheus, Dyras, & Black Rivers.

7.199 The city of Trachis is about a half mile from the Black River. South of Trachis there's a ravine through which the Asopus River flows.

7.200 South of the Asopus is the Phoenix, which empties into the Asopus. From there it's about 1.75 miles to Thermopylae.