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If there was a traitor, the proclamation of the Amphictyons makes it probable Ephialtes was the man, and so later authors held (Paus. i. 4. 2; Diod. (Ephorus) xi. 8), but the path must have been known to Thessalians (cf. ch. 215) in Xerxes' train. Cf. Ctes. Pers. 24, p. 70 Θώραξ δ᾽ Θεσσαλὸς (cf. ch. 6. 2 n.) καὶ Τραχινίων οἱ δυνατοὶ Καλλιάδης τε καὶ Τιμαφέρνης παρῆσαν στρατιὰν ἔχοντες. Καλέσας δὲ Ξέρξης τούτους τε καὶ τὸν Δημαράτον καὶ τὸν Ἡγίαν τὸν Ἐφέσιον ἔμαθεν ὡς οὐκ ἂν ἡττηθεῖεν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, εἰ μὴ κυκλωθείησαν: ἡγουμένων δὲ τῶν δύο Τραχινίων διὰ δυσβάτου στρατὸς Περσικὸς διελήλυθε μυριάδες τέσσαρες καὶ κατὰ νώτου γίγνονται τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων.

The argument seems to be; ‘one might further urge against this view that Onetes was no Malian and so would not know the path, but this objection would have no weight, since he might have learnt of it if he had often visited the district.’ For εἰδείη ... ἄν cf. i. 70 ad fin.

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