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So these troops marched in haste towards the Isthmus. Meanwhile the
Argives, who had promised Mardonius that they would stop the
Spartans from crossing their borders, as soon as they learnt that
Pausanias with his army had started from Sparta, took the swiftest
courier they could find, and sent him off to Attica. The message
which he delivered, on his arrival at Athens, was the following:
"Mardonius," he said, "the Argives have sent me to tell thee that
the Lacedaemonian youth are gone forth from their city, and that the
Argives are too weak to hinder them. Take good heed therefore to
thyself at this time." After thus speaking, without a word more, he
returned home.
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