The histories of Herodotus;

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that means caused the destruction of those Greeks who were
stationed there. But afterward, fearing the Lacedaemonians,
he fled to Thessaly; and when he had fled, a price was set
on his head by the Pylagori when the Amphictyons were assembled
at Pylse. But some time after, he went down to
Anticyra, and was killed by Athenades, a Trachinian. This
Athenades killed him for another reason, which I shall mention
in a subsequent part of my history; 1 he was, however,
rewarded none the less by the Lacedaemonians. Another account
is given, that Onetes, son of Phanagoras, a Carystian,
and Corydallus of Anticyra, were the persons who gave this
information to the king, and conducted the Persians round
the mountain. But to me this is by no means credible: for
in the first place we may draw that inference from this circumstance,
that the Pylagori of the Grecians set a price on the
head not of Onetes and Corydallus, but of Ephialtes the Trachinian,
having surely ascertained the exact truth ; and in the
next place we know that Ephialtes fled on that account.
Onetes, indeed, though he was not a Malian, might be acquainted
with this path if he had been much conversant with
the country ; but it was Ephialtes who conducted them round
the mountain by the path, and I charge him as the guilty
person. Xerxes, since he was pleased with what Ephialtes
promised to perform, being exceedingly delighted, immediately
despatched Hydarnes and the troops that Hydarnes commanded
; and he started from the camp about the hour of
lamp-lighting. The native Malians discovered this pathway;
and having discovered it, conducted the Thessalians by it
against the Phocians, at the time when the Phocians, having
fortified the pass by a wall, were under shelter from an attack.
From that time it appeared to have been of no service
to the Malians. This path is situated as follows : it begins
from the river Asopus, which flows through the cleft; the
same name is given both to the mountain and to the path,
Anopaea; and this Anopaea extends along the ridge of the
mountain, and ends near Alpenus, which is the first city of
the Locrians toward the Malians, and by the rock called Melampygus,
and by the seats of the Cercopes ; and there the
path is the narrowest. Along this path, thus situated, the
Persians, having crossed the Asopus, marched all night, having
on their right the mountains of the CEtaeans, and on their
left those of the Trachinians ; morning appeared, and they
were on the summit of the mountain. At this part of the
1 The promised account is nowhere given in any extant writings of the
historian.