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When the horse reached the camp, Mardonius and all the Persian army
made great lamentation for Masistius. They shaved off all the hair
from their own heads, and cut the manes from their war-horses and
their sumpter-beasts, while they vented their grief in such loud cries
that all Boeotia resounded with the clamour, because they had lost the
man who, next to Mardonius, was held in the greatest esteem, both by
the king and by the Persians generally. So the barbarians, after
their own fashion, paid honours to the dead Masistius.
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