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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 41 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 42 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 43 (search)
Now for this prophecy, which Mardonius said was spoken of the Persians, I know it to have been made concerning not them but the Illyrians and the army of the Enchelees.Referring to a legendary expedition of these northwestern tribes, directed against Hellas and Delphi in particular. There is, however, a prophecy made by Bacis concerning this battle:
By Thermodon's stream and the grass-grown banks of Asopus,
Will be a gathering of Greeks for fight and the ring of the barbarian's war-cry;
Many a Median archer, by death untimely overtaken will fall
There in the battle when the day of his doom is upon him.
I know that these verses and others very similar to them from Musaeus referred to the Persians. As for the river Thermodon, it flows between Tanagra and Glisas.A little to the northwest of Thebes.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 45 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 60 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 72 (search)
These won the most renown of all who fought at Plataea. For Callicrates, who, when he came to the army, was the finest not only of the Lacedaemonians, but also of all the other Greeks, died away from the battle. Callicrates, who was sitting in his place when Pausanias was offering sacrifice, was wounded in the side by an arrow.
While his comrades were fighting, he was carried out of the battle and died a lingering death, saying to Arimnestus, a Plataean, that it was not a source of grief to him to die for Hellas' sake; his sorrow was rather that he had struck no blow and achieved no deed worthy of his merit, despite all his eager desire to do so.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 78 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 82 (search)
This other story is also told. When Xerxes fled from Hellas, he left to Mardonius his own establishment. Pausanias, seeing Mardonius' establishment with its display of gold and silver and gaily colored tapestry, ordered the bakers and the cooks to prepare a dinner such as they were accustomed to do for Mardonius.
They did his bidding, but Pausanias, when he saw golden and silver couches richly covered, and tables of gold and silver, and all the magnificent service of the banquet, was amazed at ian fashion. When that meal, so different from the other, was ready, Pausanias burst out laughing and sent for the generals of the Greeks.
When these had assembled, Pausanias pointed to the manner in which each dinner was served and said: “Men of Hellas, I have brought you here because I desired to show you the foolishness of the leader of the Medes who, with such provisions for life as you see, came here to take away from us our possessions which are so pitiful.” In this way, it is said, Pausan
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 95 (search)
Deiphonus, the son of this Evenius, had been brought by the Corinthians, and was the army's prophet. But I have heard it said before now, that Deiphonus was not the son of Evenius, but made a wrongful use of that name and worked for wages up and down Hellas.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 9, chapter 101 (search)
Moreover, there was the additional coincidence, that there were precincts of Eleusinian Demeter on both battlefields; for at Plataea the fight was near the temple of Demeter, as I have already said, and so it was to be at Mykale also.
It happened that the rumor of a victory won by the Greeks with Pausanias was true, for the defeat at Plataea happened while it was yet early in the day, and the defeat of Mykale in the afternoon. That the two fell on the same day of the same month was proven to the Greeks when they examined the matter not long afterwards.
Now before this rumor came they had been faint-hearted, fearing less for themselves than for the Greeks with Pausanias, that Hellas should stumble over Mardonius. But when the report sped among them, they grew stronger and swifter in their onset. So Greeks and barbarians alike were eager for battle, seeing that the islands and the Hellespont were the prizes of victory.