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The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field of Plataea,
proceeded to bury their own dead, each nation apart from the rest.
The Lacedaemonians made three graves; in one they buried their
youths, among whom were Posidonius, Amompharetus, Philocyon, and
Callicrates; - in another, the rest of the Spartans; and in the
third, the Helots. Such was their mode of burial. The Tegeans
buried all their dead in a single grave; as likewise did the Athenians
theirs, and the Megarians and Phliasians those who were slain by the
horse. These graves, then, had bodies buried in them: as for the
other tombs which are to be seen at Plataea, they were raised, as I
understand, by the Greeks whose troops took no part in the battle;
and who, being ashamed of themselves, erected empty barrows upon the
field, to obtain credit with those who should come after them. Among
others, the Eginetans have a grave there, which goes by their name;
but which, as I learn, was made ten years later by Cleades, the son
of Autodicus, a Plataean, at the request of the Eginetans, whose.
agent he was.
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