The histories of Herodotus;

464 HERODOTUS—BOOK VIII, URANIA [71-74
with Leonidas at Thermopylae had perished, they flocked together
from the cities and stationed themselves at the isthmus
and Cleombrotus, son of Anaxandrides, and brother of Leonidas,
commanded them. Having stationed themselves, therefore,
at the isthmus, and having blocked up the Scironian way,
they then, as they determined on consultation, built a wall
across the isthmus. As they were many myriads in number,
and every man laboured, the work progressed rapidly; for
stones, bricks, timber, and baskets full of sand were brought
to it, and those who assisted flagged not a moment in their
work, either by night or by day. Those who assisted at the
isthmus with all their forces were the following of the Greeks
the Lacedaemonians, and all the Arcadians, the Eleans, Corinthians,
Sicyonians, Epidaurians, Phliasians, Trcezenians,
and Hermionians. These were they who assisted, and were
very much alarmed at the dangerous situation of Greece ; but
the rest of the Peloponnesians did not concern themselves
about it; however, the Olympian and Carnian festivals were
now past. Seven nations inhabit the Peloponnesus : of these,
two, being indigenous, are now seated in the same country
in which they originally dwelt, the Arcadians and Cynurians.
One nation, the Achaeans, never removed from the Peloponnesus,
though they did from their own territory, and now occupy
another. The remaining four nations of the seven are foreign,
Dorians, vEtolians, Dryopians, and Lemnians. The Dorians
have many and celebrated cities ; the yEtolians, only Elis
the Dryopians, Hermione and Asine, situated near Cardamyle
of Laconia ; the Lemnians have all the Paroreatae. The Cynurians,
who are indigenous, are the only people that appear to
be Ionians ; but they have become Dorians by being governed
by the Argives, and through lapse of time, being Orneatae *
and neighbouring inhabitants. Of these seven nations, the
remaining cities, except those I have enumerated, remained
neutral; or, if I may speak freely, by remaining neutral,
favoured the Mede.
Those at the isthmus, then, persevered with such zeal as
having now to contend for their all, and as they did not expect
to distinguish themselves by their fleet; meanwhile, those
at Salamis, having heard of these things, were alarmed, not
fearing so much for themselves as for the Peloponnesus. For
some time one man standing by another began to talk in
secret, wondering at the imprudence of Eurybiades; till at
1 Baehr takes the word Orneatae to describe people who were transplanted
from a distance, and made to dwell near Argos. One advantage
in following his interpretation is, that it obviates the necessity of altering.
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