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The two armies fought together on the plain of Marathon for a length
of time; and in the mid battle, where the Persians themselves and the
Sacae had their place, the barbarians were victorious, and broke and
pursued the Greeks into the inner country; but on the two wings the
Athenians and the Plataeans defeated the enemy. Having so done,
they suffered the routed barbarians to fly at their ease, and joining
the two wings in one, fell upon those who had broken their own centre,
and fought and conquered them. These likewise fled, and now the
Athenians hung upon the runaways and cut them down, chasing them all
the way to the shore, on reaching which they laid hold of the ships and
called aloud for fire.
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