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ecause I desired to show you the senselessness of this leader of theMedes, who having such fare as this, came to us who have such sorryfare as ye see here, in order to take it away from us." Thus it issaid that Pausanias spoke to the commanders of the Hellenes.83. However,[92] in later time after these events many of thePlataians also found chests of gold and of silver and of othertreasures; and moreover afterwards this which follows was seen in thecase of the dead bodies here, after the flesh had been stripped offfrom the bones; for the Plataians brought together the bones all toone place:--there was found, I say, a skull with no suture but all ofone bone, and there was seen also a jaw-bone, that is to say the upperpart of the jaw, which had teeth joined together and all of one bone,both the teeth that bite and those that grind; and the bones were seenalso of a man five cubits high. 84. The body of Mardonios however haddisappeared[93] on the day after the battle, taken by whom I am notable with certainty to say, but I have heard the names of many men ofvarious cities who are said to have buried Mardonios, and I know thatmany received gifts from Artontes the son of Mardonios for having donethis: who he was however who took up and buried the body of MardoniosI am not able for certain to discover, but Dionysophanes an Ephesianis reported with some show of reason to have been he who buriedMardonios. 85. He then was buried in some such manner as this: and theHellenes when they had divided the spoil at Plataia proceeded to burytheir dead, each nation apart by themselves. The Spartans made forthemselves three several burial-places, one in which they buried theyounger Spartans,[94] of whom also were Poseidonios, Amompharetos,Philokyon and Callicrates,--in one of the graves, I say, were laid theyounger men, in the second the rest of the Spartans, and in the thirdthe Helots. These then thus buried their dead; but the Tegeans buriedtheirs all together in a place apart from these, and the Athenianstheirs together; and the Megarians and Phliasians those who had beenslain by the cavalry. Of all these the burial-places had bodies laidin them, but as to the burial-places of other States which are to beseen at Plataia, these, as I am informed, are all mere mounds of earthwithout any bodies in them, raised by the several peoples on accountof posterity, because they were ashamed of their absence from thefight; for among others there is one there called the burial-place ofthe Eginetans, which I hear was raised at the request of the Eginetansby Cleades the son of Autodicos, a man of Plataia who was their publicguest-friend,[95] no less than ten years after these events.86. When the Hellenes had buried their dead at Plataia, forthwith theydetermined in common council to march upon Thebes and to ask theThebans to surrender those who had taken the side of the Medes, andamong the first of them Timagenides and Attaginos, who were leaders