24. While they were there, Xerxes, after he had made his dispositions with regard to the bodies of the dead, sent a herald to the fleet: and the dispositions which he made beforehand were as follows:-for all those of his army who were lying dead at Thermopylai, (and there were as many as twenty thousand in all), with the exception of about a thousand whom he left, he dug trenches and buried them, laying over them leaves and heaping earth upon them, that they might not be seen by the men of the fleet.
24. Horiek hor zebiltzan bitartean, Xerxesek, hildakoei buruz zenbait neurri hartu ondoren, heraldo bat bidali zion untziteriari, lehenbizi honako neurriok hartu zituelarik: bere armadak Thermopyletan izandako hildako guztietatik (konkretuki hogei mila) mila gorpu inguru utzi zituen ehortzi gabe, eta hartarako egindako hobietan lurperarazi zituen gainerakoak, eta hostoez estali eta lurra berdintzeko agindu zuen gero, itsas armadako soldaduek ikus ez zitzaten.