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The connexion is defective and the words ἐπείτε δέ meaningless. Stein suggests ἐπεί γε δή on the assumption that the gigantic skeleton was that of Mardonius. This can hardly be true, for there is nowhere a suggestion that Mardonius was a giant, though no doubt other Persian leaders are big men (vii. 117. 1, 187. 2; ix. 25. 1, 96. 2).

Pausanias, who repeats this story (ix. 2. 2), saw a grave of Mardonius to the right of the road from Eleutherae to Plataea near the battle-field.

ἤδη ... ἤκουσα: cf. iv. 77. 1.

πολλοὺς ... τινας: very many; τις, intensive, cf. § 2; v. 33. 2.

παντοδαπούς, ‘of all nations.’ Pausanias (l. c.) makes all the successful claimants ‘Ionian’.


τοιούτῳ: i. e. secretly, if the reading is sound.

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