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time to the present, allowed the Deceleians to be free from all
dues, and to have seats of honour at their festivals; and hence too,
in the war which took place many years after these events between
the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, the Lacedaemonians, while they
laid waste all the rest of Attica, spared the lands of the Deceleians.
Of this canton was Sophanes, the Athenian, who most
distinguished himself in the battle. Two stories are told concerning
him: according to the one, he wore an iron anchor, fastened to the
belt which secured his breastplate by a brazen chain; and this, when
he came near the enemy, he threw out; to the intent that, when they
made their charge, it might be impossible for him to be driven from
his post: as soon, however, as the enemy fled, his wont was to take up
his anchor and join the pursuit. Such, then, is one of the said
stories. The other, which is contradictory to the first, relates
that Sophanes, instead of having an iron anchor fastened to his
breastplate, bore the device of an anchor upon his shield, which he
never allowed to rest, but made to run round continually.
Another glorious deed was likewise performed by this same Sophanes
At the time when the Athenians were laying siege to Egina, he took
up the challenge of Eurybates the Argive, a winner of the
Pentathlum, and slew him. The fate of Sophanes in after times was
the following: he was leader of an Athenian army in conjunction with
Leagrus, the son of Glaucon, and in a battle with the Edonians near
Datum, about the gold-mines there, he was slain, after displaying
uncommon bravery.
As soon as the Greeks at Plataea had overthrown the barbarians,
a woman came over to them from the enemy. She was one of the
concubines of Pharandates, the son of Teaspes, a Persian; and when she
heard that the Persians were all slain and that the Greeks had carried
the day, forthwith she adorned herself and her maids with many
golden ornaments, and with the bravest of the apparel that she had
brought with her, and, alighting from her litter, came forward to
the Lacedaemonians, ere the work of slaughter was well over. When
she saw that all the orders were given by Pausanias, with whose name
and country she was well acquainted, as she had oftentimes heard
tell of them, she knew who he must be; wherefore she embraced his
knees, and said-
"O king of Sparta! save thy suppliant from the slavery that awaits
the captive. Already I am beholden to thee for one service- the
slaughter of these men, wretches who had no regard either for gods
or angels. I am by birth a Coan, the daughter of Hegetoridas, son of
Antagoras. The Persian seized me by force in Cos, and kept me
against my will."
"Lady," answered Pausanias, "fear nothing: as a suppliant thou art
safe- and still more, if thou hast spoken truth, and Hegetoridas of
Cos is thy father- for he is bound to me by closer ties of
friendship than any other man in those regions."
When he had thus spoken, Pausanias placed the woman in the
charge of some of the Ephors who were present, and afterwards sent her
to Egina, whither she had a desire to go.
About the time of this woman's coming, the Mantineans arrived upon
the field, and found that all was over, and that it was too late to
take any part in the battle. Greatly distressed hereat, they
declared themselves to deserve a fine, as laggarts; after which,
learning that a portion of the Medes had fled away under Artabazus,
they were anxious to go after them as far as Thessaly. The
Lacedaemonians however would not suffer the pursuit; so they
returned again to their own land, and sent the leaders of their army
into banishment. Soon after the Mantineans, the Eleans likewise
arrived, and showed the same sorrow; after which they too returned
home, and banished their leaders. But enough concerning these nations.
There was a man at Plataea among the troops of the Eginetans,
whose name was Lampon; he was the son of Pythias, and a person of
the first rank among his countrymen. Now this Lampon went about this