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Then was the warning of the oracle fulfilled; and the vengeance which
was due to the Spartans for the slaughter of Leonidas was paid them by
Mardonius - then too did Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, and
grandson of Anaxandridas (I omit to recount his other ancestors,
since they are the same with those of Leonidas), win a victory
exceeding in glory all those to which our knowledge extends. Mardonius
was slain by Aeimnestus, a man famous in Sparta - the same who in
the Messenian war, which came after the struggle against the Medes,
fought a battle near Stenyclerus with but three hundred men against the
whole force of the Messenians, and himself perished, and the three
hundred with him.
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