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9.61 The Athenians were eager to help but were then attacked themselves by the medizing Greeks. The Spartans & Tegeans were on their own.

9.62 The Tegeans & Spartans attacked. The fight lasted for a long time. The Persians, lacking the Spartans' armor & skill, were destroyed.

9.63 The Persians near Mardonius pressed the Spartans hard, but when Mardonius and those around him fell, the rest were put to flight.

9.64 Thus Mardonius paid retribution for the death of Leonidas of Sparta, and Pausanias won the fairest victory of all those known to us.

9.65 The Persians fled after the battle to their camp and the wooden fort they had built.

9.66 When he saw the Persians fleeing, Artabazus, who had opposed engaging the Greeks, led the 40,000 men under his command north to Phocis.

9.67 Meanwhile, of the medizing Greeks, the Thebans fought the Athenians most fiercely. Still, they were routed, and they fled to Thebes.

9.68 The barbarians' success clearly depended on the Persians: when they ran everybody ran, tho the cavalry stayed & helped those who fled.

9.69 The Greeks at the temple of Hera, hearing there'd been a battle, set out & were attacked by the Theban cavalry, who killed 600 of them.

9.70 The Greeks breached the walls of the Persians' fort & slaughtered the men inside. Only 3000 escaped. 159 Greeks died in this encounter.