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Athenians in this battle; and of him there are two different storiestold: one that he carried an anchor of iron bound by chains of bronzeto the belt of his corslet; and this he threw whensoever he came upwith the enemy, in order, they say, that the enemy when they cameforth out of their ranks might not be able to move him from his place;and when a flight of his opponents took place, his plan was to take upthe anchor first and then pursue after them. This story is reportedthus; but the other of the stories, disputing the truth of that whichhas been told above, is reported as follows, namely that upon hisshield, which was ever moving about and never remaining still, he borean anchor as a device, and not one of iron bound to his corslet. 75.There was another illustrious deed done too by Sophanes; for when theAthenians besieged Egina he challenged to a fight and slew Eurybatesthe Argive,[85] one who had been victor in the five contests[86] atthe games. To Sophanes himself it happened after these events thatwhen he was general of the Athenians together with Leagros the son ofGlaucon, he was slain after proving himself a good man by the Edoniansat Daton, fighting for the gold mines.76. When the Barbarians had been laid low by the Hellenes at Plataia,there approached to these a woman, the concubine of Pharandates theson of Teaspis a Persian, coming over of her own free will from theenemy, who when she perceived that the Persians had been destroyed andthat the Hellenes were the victors, descended from her carriage andcame up to the Lacedemonians while they were yet engaged in theslaughter. This woman had adorned herself with many ornaments of gold,and her attendants likewise, and she had put on the fairest robe ofthose which she had; and when she saw that Pausanias was directingeverything there, being well acquainted before with his name and withhis lineage, because she had heard it often, she recognised Pausaniasand taking hold of his knees she said these words: "O king of Sparta,deliver me thy suppliant from the slavery of the captive: for thouhast also done me service hitherto in destroying these, who haveregard neither for demigods nor yet for gods.[87] I am by race of Cos,the daughter of Hegetorides the son of Antagoras; and the Persian tookme by force in Cos and kept me a prisoner." He made answer in thesewords: "Woman, be of good courage, both because thou art a suppliant,and also if in addition to this it chances that thou art speaking thetruth and art the daughter of Hegetorides the Coan, who is bound to meas a guest-friend more than any other of the men who dwell in thoseparts." Having thus spoken, for that time her gave her in charge tothose Ephors who were present, and afterwards he sent her away toEgina, whither she herself desired to go.77. After the arrival of the woman, forthwith upon this arrived theMantineians, when all was over; and having learnt that they had come