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The fight went most against the Greeks, where Mardonius, mounted
upon a white horse, and surrounded by the bravest of all the
Persians, the thousand picked men, fought in person. So long as
Mardonius was alive, this body resisted all attacks, and, while they
defended their own lives, struck down no small number of Spartans;
but after Mardonius fell, and the troops with him, which were the
main strength of the army, perished, the remainder yielded to the
Lacedaemonians, and took to flight. Their light clothing, and want
of bucklers, were of the greatest hurt to them: for they had to
contend against men heavily armed, while they themselves were without
any such defence.
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