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then at last the face of things became changed. For, bursting
through the line of shields, and rushing forwards in a body, the
Greeks fell upon the Persians; who, though they bore the charge and
for a long time maintained their ground, yet at length took refuge
in their intrenchment. Here the Athenians themselves, together with
those who followed them in the line of battle, the Corinthians, the
Sicyonians, and the Troezenians, pressed so closely on the steps of
their flying foes, that they entered along with them into the
fortress. And now, when even their fortress was taken, the
barbarians no longer offered resistance, but fled hastily away, all
save only the Persians. They still continued to fight in knots of a
few men against the Greeks, who kept pouring into the intrenchment.
And here, while two of the Persian commanders fled, two fell upon
the field: Artayntes and Ithamitres, who were leaders of the fleet,
escaped; Mardontes, and the commander of the land force, Tigranes,
died fighting.
The Persians still held out, when the Lacedaemonians, and their
part of the army, reached the camp, and joined in the remainder of the
battle. The number of Greeks who fell in the struggle here was not
small; the Sicyonians especially lost many, and, among the rest,
Perilaus their general.
The Samians, who served with the Medes, and who, although
disarmed, still remained in the camp, seeing from the very beginning
of the fight that the victory was doubtful, did all that lay in
their power to render help to the Greeks. And the other Ionians
likewise, beholding their example, revolted and attacked the Persians.
As for the Milesians, who had been ordered, for the better
security of the Persians, to guard the mountain-paths,- that in case
any accident befell them such as had now happened, they might not lack
guides to conduct them into the high tracts of Mycale,- and who had
also been removed to hinder them from making an outbreak in the
Persian camp; they, instead of obeying their orders, broke them in
every respect. For they guided the flying Persians by wrong roads,
which brought them into the presence of the enemy; and at last they
set upon them with their own hands, and showed themselves the
hottest of their adversaries. Ionia, therefore, on this day revolted a
second time from the Persians.
In this battle the Greeks who behaved with the greatest bravery
were the Athenians; and among them the palm was borne off by
Hermolycus, the son of Euthynus, a man accomplished in the Pancratium.
This Hermolycus was afterwards slain in the war between the
Athenians and Carystians. He fell in the fight near Cyrnus in the
Carystian territory, and was buried in the neighbourhood of Geraestus.
After the Athenians, the most distinguished on the Greek side were the
Corinthians, the Troezenians, and the Sicyonians.
The Greeks, when they had slaughtered the greater portion of the
barbarians, either in the battle or in the rout, set fire to their
ships and burnt them, together with the bulwark which had been
raised for their defence, first however removing therefrom all the
booty, and carrying it down to the beach. Besides other plunder,
they found here many caskets of money. When they had burnt the rampart
and the vessels, the Greeks sailed away to Samos, and there took
counsel together concerning the Ionians, whom they thought of removing
out of Asia. Ionia they proposed to abandon to the barbarians; and
their doubt was, in what part of their own possessions in Greece
they should settle its inhabitants. For it seemed to them a thing
impossible that they should be ever on the watch to guard and
protect Ionia; and yet otherwise there could be no hope that the
Ionians would escape the vengeance of the Persians. Hereupon the
Peloponnesian leaders proposed that the seaport towns of such Greeks
as had sided with the Medes should be taken away from them, and made
over to the Ionians. The Athenians, on the other hand, were very
unwilling that any removal at all should take place, and disliked
the Peloponnesians holding councils concerning their colonists. So, as