nians refuse the conditions offered by Mardonius, and ex-
hort the Spartans to render them assistance.

CHAP. 1--3 Mardonius again enters Athens, although now
deserted--4--11 He renews his pacific overtures to the
Athenians, to whom the Spartans at last send assistance--
12--15 Mardonius retires into Bœotia, and establishes him-
self in the Theban territory--16--19 The Greeks advance
and pitch their camp at Erythræ--20--25 after a skirmish
of cavalry they remove to the Platæan territory--26--42 The
armies remain for some time stationary and immediately
opposite to each other ; Mardonius, impatient at the delay,
prepares for battle--43, 44 His designs are communicated
to the Greeks by Alexander of Macedonia--45--69 The
Greeks, wanting water and victuals, resolve to shift their
station, but are attacked by the enemy: an engagement en-
sues, in which Mardonius is slain, and the Persian army
driven back: Artabazus escapes with forty thousand men
into Phocis--70--87 The Greeks storm the camp of the
barbarians, and a dreadful slaughter ensues--88, 89 The
movers of the Theban defection to the Medes delivered up
to Pausanias, the leader of the Spartans, and put to death--
90--92 The naval forces of the Greeks, by the invitation of
the Samnians, take their departure from Delos--93--95 A
digression concerning Evenius of Apollonia, father of Dei-
phonus, the divine of the Greeks--96--07 The Persians,
informed of the advance of the Greek fleet, haul up their
ships on the strand of Mycale, and fortify them with a wall :
the Greeks overcome the Persians in a sharp engagement,
capture the camp and burn the ships: Ionia again secedes
from Persia--114--122 the Peloponnesians return into
Greece, and the Athenians also, after capturing Sestos.

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