HERODOTUS

BOOK IX. 76-78you be verily daughter to Hegetorides of Cos, for heismy closest friend, of all that dwell in thoselands.'' Thus saying, he gave her for the nonce incharge to those of the ephors who were present, andthereafter sent her to Aegina, whither she herselfdesired to go.77. Immediately after the coming of this woman,came the men of Mantinea, when all was over ; who,learning that they were come too late for the battle,were greatly distressed, and said that they deservedto punish themselves therefor. Hearing that theMedes with Artabazus were fleeing, they would havepursued after them as far as Thessaly but the Lace-;daemonians would not suffer them to pursue fleeingmen ;and returning to their own land the Mantineansbanished the leaders of their army from thecountry. After the Mantineans came the men of Elis,who also went away sorrowful in like manner as theMantineans, and after their departure banishedtheir leaders likewise. Such were the doings of theMantineans and Eleans.78. Now there was at Plataeae in the army of theAeginetans one Lampon, son of Pytheas, a leadingman of Aegina he sought Pausanias with most unrighteouscounsel, and having made haste to come;said to him ": Son of Cleombrotus, you have done adeed of surpassing greatness and glory ; by heaven'sfavour you have saved Hellas, and thereby wongreater renown than any Greek known to men. Butnow you must finish what remains to do, that yourfame may be yet the greater, and that no foreignermay hereafter make bold unprovoked to wreak hismad and wicked will on the Greeks. When Leonidas25*