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Besides this there is another story told, which I do not at all
believe - to wit, that Onetas the son of Phanagoras, a native of
Carystus, and Corydallus, a man of Anticyra, were the persons who
spoke on this matter to the king, and took the Persians across the
mountain. One may guess which story is true, from the fact that the
deputies of the Greeks, the Pylagorae, who must have had the best
means of ascertaining the truth, did not offer the reward for the heads
of Onetas and Corydallus, but for that of Ephialtes of Trachis;
and again from the flight of Ephialtes, which we know to have been on
this account. Onetas, I allow, although he was not a Malian,
might have been acquainted with the path, if he had lived much in that
part of the country; but as Ephialtes was the person who actually led
the Persians round the mountain by the pathway, I leave his name on
record as that of the man who did the deed.
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