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When Mardonius and his army had returned to Thebes, the Greeks gathered in congress decreed to make
common cause with the Athenians and advancing to Plataea in a body, to fight to a finish for liberty, and also to make a vow to the
gods that, if they were victorious, the Greeks would unite in celebrating the Festival of
Liberty on that dayThis Day of Freedom was commemorated
every four years at Plataea, probably on the 27th
of August. On the date see Munro in the Camb. Anc. Hist. 4, pp. 339 f.
and would hold the games of the Festival in Plataea. And when the Greek forces were assembled
at the Isthmus, all of them agreed that they should swear an oath about the war, one that would
make staunch the concord among them and would compel them nobly to endure the perils of the
battle. The oath ran as follows: "I will not hold life dearer
than liberty, nor will I desert the leaders, whether they be living or dead, but I will bury
all the
When Mardonius learned that the enemy's
army was advancing in the direction of Boeotia, he
marched forth from Thebes, and when he arrived at
the Asopus River he pitched a camp, which he strengthened by means of a deep ditch and
surrounded with a wooden palisade. The total number of the Greeks approached one hundred
thousand men, that of the barbarians some five hundred thousand.The size of the Greek army is probably slightly exaggerated, that of the
Persian greatly.
The first to open the battle were the barbarians, who poured
out upon the Greeks by night and charged with all their cavalry upon the camp. The Athenians
observed them in time and with their army in battle formation boldly advanced to meet them, and
a mighty battle ensued. In the end all the rest of the Greeks
put to flight the barbarians who were arrayed against them; but the Megarians alone, who faced
the commander of the cavalry and the best horsemen the Persia
Since the barbarians were thus separated in their flights, so
the body of the Greeks was similarly divided; for the Athenians and Plataeans and Thespiaeans
after those who had set out for Thebes, and the
Corinthians and Sicyonians and the Phliasians and certain others followed after the forces
which were retreating with Artabazus; and the Lacedaemonians together with the rest pursued the
soldiers who had taken refuge within the palisade and trounced them spiritedly. The ces, and then
set upon the pursuing Athenians ; a sharp battle took place before the walls, the Thebans
fighting brilliantly, and not a few on both sides, but at last this body overcome by the
Athenians and took refuge again within Thebes.
After this the Athenians
withdrew to the aid of the Lacedaemonians and joined with them in assaulting the walls against
those Persians who had taken refuge within the camp; both sides put up a vigorous contest, the
barbarian
The Boeotians,
exasperated by the wasting of their land, sprang to arms as a nation and when they had taken
the field constituted a great army. A battle took place at Oenophyta in Boeotia, and since both sides withstood the stress of the
conflict with stout hearts, they spent the day in fighting; but after a severe struggle the
Athenians put the Boeotians to flight and Myronides became master of all the cities of
Boeotia with the exception of Thebes. After this he
marched out of Boeotia and led his army against the
Locrians who are known as Opuntian.The Locrians on the
Strait of Euboea, so named after their capital
Opus. These he overpowered at the first attack, and taking hostages from them he then
entered Parnasia. In like manner as he had done with the
Locrians, he also subdued the Phocians, and after taking hostages he marched into Thessaly,
finding fault with the Thessalians for their act of treachery and ordering them