* sSaeSaS ase se se sens Ses es esas Seesesasasa _ HERODOTUS THE HISTORIES BSSSE SESE EEE EEE SESESESRSEEEEESESEEEEES Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt Revised, with an introduction and notes by A. R. Burn PENGUIN BOOKSsu HERODOTUS * BOOK sEvEN swas bewildered; the truth, nam« anentood var pte a vhefentsthey employed W to be rett them with 2 gt ‘ona body and pretend enemy would pursue Demaratus said, “when we began one wsheard me peak ofthese men [tld yon che s enterprise would tur out, and you laughed at me he for nothing, my lord, more eamestly than to observe the ta Your presences hear me once more. Themen have come oi us for posession ofthe pass, and for chat strugee thy are prea Ieisthe common practice ofthe Spartans to pay carefal aetgn’s their hair when they are about to rik ther lives. But Lasse you dy if you ean defeat these men and the rest of che Sparans who ae athome, there isno other people inthe world who will dare toa firm or lft hand against you. You have now to del withthe fg Kingdom in Greece, and with the bravest men. ‘Xerxes, unable to believe what Demaratus said, asked further hoy was possible that so small a force could fight with his army. ‘Ny lord, Demaratus replied, ‘treat me as alia, if what I have fore docs not tke place.’ But sill Xerxes was unconvinced. For four days Xerxes waited, in constant expectation that te Greeks would make good their exape; then, on the fifth, when sil they had made no move and their continued presence seemed me impudent and reckless folly he was seized with rage and sen forwad the Medes and Cisians with orders to take them alive and briny into his presence. The Medes charged, and ‘The Spartans had their losses too, ans, finding that their assults upo wer eof the attacks hres tes in teror for his feet. Next day the figl hoe ight in the ight be badly enough disabled by nce. But the Greeks never sickened; cen posted to guard the track over cian, which had be genset found that things were no better the mountains. So when fear of the Spartans, fed to Thessaly, and ar upon ia bead by the Amphictyons yy the battle cont handling, were at length withdr vwas taken by Hydames and his picked for another rex red him was Of y yy but the ss ‘According to another reo ana hr lll esi the business to a quick and easy end. B xno more suecesfl than the Medes had all went as before,517 rs SMISSES THE ALLIES were in the act of arming HERODOTUS: BOOK sEVEN ERONIDAS DI Phanagoras of Carystus, to their feet, the Phocians ang to resist; they had expected no semen barring their way. Hydanacs darter sande cre, for his frst umcomfortable shoe metes and Cory ce my second, that there is no d ick and fast, and Jn object oftheatack, certainly Onetes, ev ; might have known about the teks ne in the neighbouthood - but it ware no one else, who showed the Persians name on record as the guilty one. was Epi hur cstruetion. But the Persians way, and Teal or tention to them, bu passed on along osible speed Xcsnes found Eph off most stisfcory. He wa 1 oe ee ft warning ofthe death sent off Hydames with the troops underli| The Greeks at Thermopylae from the seer Megistias, who read amp about the time the lamps are li th the dawn from abe The track was originally discovered by the Mains ofthe neh bourhoods they afterwards used it to help the ‘Thesis, iy ‘over it to attack Phocis at time when the Phocians wee protected from invasion by the wall which they had buile aero = Bess. So ong, then, have sinister uses been known tothe Mai], mt not bandon cei post, others De SPPSE « sack begins atthe sop, the steam which Hows throghik| Se atmy split some diesels @OACg narrow gorge, and, running along the ridge of the mountain whid,| ‘ities, while others re like the track itself is ealled Anopaea - ends at Alpenos, the fi Locrian settlement as one comes from Malis, near the rock known Black-Buttocks’ Stone and the seats of the Cercopes. Just here ist narrowest part of the pass. from thebills. I : -out men came running asda a breaking theo ar bey 1 opposite. The esule was stesso to their various hou the night, wide] Sanger atthe ie indeed by prosperity, hand and those of Tract on BS6] ry, and Sparta didnot le bet CSP, oad been he summit of the ridge, neat for right at che outset of cians, a8 I mentioned before, stood on guatd wid oe ‘watch the track and protect theie country. Th by the foreigner oF 2 red for this service to Leonidas, the lowe hhexameter verse and: “|