| #### CHAPTER 43 |

| #### #### As for the oracle of which Mardonius spoke, and which he referred to the Persians, it did not, I am well assured, mean them, but the Illyrians and the Enchelean host. There are, however, some verses of Bacis which did speak of this battle: ####
| #### By Thermodon's stream, and the grass-clad hanks of Asopus, See where gather the Grecians, and hark to the foreigners' war-shout There in death shall lie, ere fate or Lachesis doomed him, Many a bow-bearing Mede, when the day of calamity cometh |
#### #### These verses, and some others like them which Musaeus wrote, referred, I well know, to the Persians. The river Thermodon flows between Tanagra and Glisas. ####  |