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During these assaults, it is said that Xerxes, who was watching the
battle, thrice leaped from the throne on which he sate, in terror for
his army.
Next day the combat was renewed, but with no better success on the
part of the barbarians. The Greeks were so few that the barbarians
hoped to find them disabled, by reason of their wounds, from offering
any further resistance; and so they once more attacked them. But the
Greeks were drawn up in detachments according to their cities, and
bore the brunt of the battle in turns - all except the Phocians, who
had been stationed on the mountain to guard the pathway. So, when the
Persians found no difference between that day and the preceding, they
again retired to their quarters.
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