| #### CHAPTER 72 |

| #### #### These then were the most distinguished of those who fought at Plataea. As for Callicrates, - the most beautiful man, not among the Spartans only, but in the whole Greek camp, - he was not killed in the battle; for it was while Pausanias was still consulting the victims, that as he sat in his proper place in the line, an arrow struck him on the side. While his comrades advanced to the fight, he was borne out of the ranks, very loath to die, as he showed by the words which he addressed to Arimnestus, one of the Plataeans; - "I grieve," said he, "not because I have to die for my country, but because I have not lifted my arm against the enemy, nor done any deed worthy of me, much as I have desired to achieve something." ####  |