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war-tent with Mardonius: when Pausanias, therefore, saw the tent
with its adornments of gold and silver, and its hangings of divers
colours, he gave commandment to the bakers and the cooks to make him
ready a banquet in such fashion as was their wont for Mardonius.
Then they made ready as they were bidden; and Pausanius, beholding the
couches of gold and silver daintily decked out with their rich
covertures, and the tables of gold and silver laid, and the feast
itself prepared with all magnificence, was astonished at the good
things which were set before him, and, being in a pleasant mood,
gave commandment to his own followers to make ready a Spartan
supper. When the suppers were both served, and it was apparent how
vast a difference lay between the two, Pausanias laughed, and sent his
servants to call to him the Greek generals. On their coming, he
pointed to the two boards, and said:-
"I sent for you, O Greeks, to show you the folly of this Median
captain, who, when he enjoyed such fare as this, must needs come
here to rob us of our penury."
Such, it is said, were the words of Pausanias to the Grecian
generals.
During many years afterwards, the Plataeans used often to find
upon the field of battle concealed treasures of gold, and silver,
and other valuables. More recently they likewise made discovery of the
following: the flesh having all fallen away from the bodies of the
dead, and their bones having been gathered together into one place,
the Plataeans found a skull without any seam, made entirely of a
single bone; likewise a jaw, both the upper bone and the under,
wherein all the teeth, front and back, were joined together and made
of one bone; also, the skeleton of a man not less than five cubits
in height.
The body of Mardonius disappeared the day after the battle; but
who it was that stole it away I cannot say with certainty. I have
heard tell of a number of persons, and those too of many different
nations, who are said to have given him burial; and I know that many
have received large sums on this score from Artontes the son of
Mardonius: but I cannot discover with any certainty which of them it
was who really took the body away, and buried it. Among others,
Dionysophanes, an Ephesian, is rumoured to have been the actual
person.
The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field of Plataea,
proceeded to bury their own dead, each nation apart from the rest. The
Lacedaemonians made three graves; in one they buried their youths,
among whom were Posidonius, Amompharetus, Philocyon, and Callicrates;-
in another, the rest of the Spartans; and in the third, the Helots.
Such was their mode of burial. The Tegeans buried all their dead in
a single grave; as likewise did the Athenians theirs, and the
Megarians and Phliasians those who were slain by the horse. These
graves, then, had bodies buried in them: as for the other tombs
which are to be seen at Plataea, they were raised, as I understand, by
the Greeks whose troops took no part in the battle; and who, being
ashamed of themselves, erected empty barrows upon the field, to obtain
credit with those who should come after them. Among others, the
Eginetans have a grave there, which goes by their name; but which,
as I learn, was made ten years later by Cleades, the son of Autodicus,
a Plataean, at the request of the Eginetans, whose. agent he was.
After the Greeks had buried their dead at Plataea,' they presently
held a council, whereat it was resolved to make war upon Thebes, and
to require that those who had joined the Medes should be delivered
into their hands. Two men, who had been the chief leaders on the
occasion, were especially named- to wit, Timagenidas and Attaginus. If
the Thebans should refuse to give these men up, it was determined to
lay siege to their city, and never stir from before it till it
should surrender. After this resolve, the army marched upon Thebes;
and having demanded the men, and been refused, began the siege, laying
waste the country all around, and making assaults upon the wall in