121. They then, I say, though hard put to it, yet were performing that which was appointed to them; and from Acanthos Xerxes, after having commanded the generals to wait for the fleet at Therma, let the ships take their course apart from himself, (now this Therma is that which is situated on the Thermaic gulf, from which also this gulf has its name); and thus he did because he was informed that this was the shortest way:
Bitartean, Xerxesek itsas armadari Akanthotik bere kontura aurrera egiten utzi zion, untziburuei Termen itxaroteko agindu ondoren (Therme Thermeoko golkoan dago, golkoari izena ematen diona hiri horixe delarik), biderik laburrena hiri horrexetatik pasatzen zela jakin baitzuen.