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So when the victims did not allow either the Persians or their Greek
allies to begin the battle - these Greeks had their own soothsayer in
the person of Hippomachus, a Leucadian - and when soldiers continued
to pour into the opposite camp and the numbers on the Greek side to
increase continually, Timagenidas, the son of Herpys, a Theban,
advised Mardonius to keep a watch on the passes of Cithaeron, telling
him how supplies of men kept flocking in day after day, and assuring
him that he might cut off large numbers.
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