| #### CHAPTER 76 |

| #### #### As soon as the Greeks at Plataea had overthrown the barbarians, a woman came over to them from the enemy. She was one of the concubines of Pharandates, the son of Teaspes, a Persian; and when she heard that the Persians were all slain and that the Greeks had carried the day, forthwith she adorned herself and her maids with many golden ornaments, and with the bravest of the apparel that she had brought with her, and, alighting from her litter, came forward to the Lacedaemonians, ere the work of slaughter was well over. When she saw that all the orders were given by Pausanias, with whose name and country she was well acquainted, as she had oftentimes heard tell of them, she knew who he must be; wherefore she embraced his knees, and said - #### "O king of Sparta! save thy suppliant from the slavery that awaits the captive. Already I am beholden to thee for one service - the slaughter of these men, wretches who had no regard either for gods or angels. I am by birth a Coan, the daughter of Hegetoridas, son of Antagoras. The Persian seized me by force in Cos, and kept me against my will." #### "Lady," answered Pausanias, "fear nothing: as a suppliant thou art safe - and still more, if thou hast spoken truth, and Hegetoridas of Cos is thy father - for he is bound to me by closer ties of friendship than any other man in those regions." #### When he had thus spoken, Pausanias placed the woman in the charge of some of the Ephors who were present, and afterwards sent her to Egina, whither she had a desire to go. ####  |