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When he had so spoken, he crossed the Asopus, and led the Persians
forward at a run directly upon the track of the Greeks, whom he
believed to be in actual flight. He could not see the Athenians;
for, as they had taken the way of the plain, they were hidden from his
sight by the hills; he therefore led on his troops against the
Lacedaemonians and the Tegeans only. When the commanders of the
other divisions of the barbarians saw the Persians pursuing the Greeks
so hastily, they all forthwith seized their standards, and hurried
after at their best speed in great disorder and disarray. On they went
with loud shouts and in a wild rout, thinking to swallow up the runaways.
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