In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece.

公元前480年，波斯王薛西斯率数十万铁骑攻向希腊。

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There were no rhinoceroses or elephants on the real battlefield, for example, and King Xerxes was more dignified and remote than his depiction in the movie.

例如，在真实的战场上既没有犀牛也没有战象，薛西斯王也远非影片描写的那样庄重威严；

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This may be true, but the anecdote looks suspiciously like Herodotus' s story of Ephialtes, who showed the Persian king Xerxes a road to circumvent Thermopylae in 480.

这可能是真实的，但故事看起来像形迹可疑希罗·多德的故事Ephialtes，谁表明，波斯国王薛西斯的道路绕过塞莫480。

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The ancient Persian king Xerxes noted that eating the leaves improved his soldiers' vigor, while the Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard prescribed the plant for restoring the bloom to ladies' cheeks.

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The Persian king Xerxes took his revenge for this defeat by destroying Miletus, but the city was soon afterward rebuilt and by the middle of the fifth century b.c. it was once again a flourishing port and commercial center.

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