| #### CHAPTER 38 |

| #### #### So when the victims did not allow either the Persians or their Greek allies to begin the battle - these Greeks had their own soothsayer in the person of Hippomachus, a Leucadian - and when soldiers continued to pour into the opposite camp and the numbers on the Greek side to increase continually, Timagenidas, the son of Herpys, a Theban, advised Mardonius to keep a watch on the passes of Cithaeron, telling him how supplies of men kept flocking in day after day, and assuring him that he might cut off large numbers. ####  |