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46. Darius I. See Bossuet's text, p. 89, and Note 4. His expédition against Greece was a failure. A second expédition was frustrated by a revolt in Egypt, which demanded his attention. He died on his way to suppress it. His son Xerxes (485-472 B.c.) invaded Greece with an immense host, and, after suffering a check in the famous pass of Thermopyke, held to the death by Leonidas of Sparta, took Athens, which he found deserted. But his fleet was destroyed at Salamis (480 B.c.), and in the next year his troops were utterly routed at Platxa by combined Greek forces.