37. When the construction of the bridges had been finished, and the works about Athos, both the embankments about the mouths of the channel, which were made because of the breaking of the sea upon the beach, that the mouths of it might not be filled up, and the channel itself, were reported to be fully completed, then, after they had passed the winter at Sardis, the army set forth from thence fully equipped, at the beginning of spring, to march to Abydos;
37. Zubiak eraiki eta Athos inguruko obrak amaitu ondoren (hau da, uhaitzezko moilak-olatuei aurre egin eta indusketaren ahoak basaz betetzea ekiditeko kanaleko sarbideetan eraikiak-eta kanala bera erabat bukaturik zeuden berria iristean), prest zegoen jada armada, negua igaro eta udaberria heltzean, Sardestik Abydora joateko.