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While thus it fared with the fleet, on land Mardonius and his army
were attacked in their camp during the night by the Brygi, a tribe of
Thracians; and here vast numbers of the Persians were slain, and
even Mardonius himself received a wound. The Brygi, nevertheless,
did not succeed in maintaining their own freedom: for Mardonius would
not leave the country till he had subdued them and made them subjects of
Persia. Still, though he brought them under the yoke, the blow
which his land force had received at their hands, and the great damage
done to his fleet off Athos, induced him to set out upon his retreat;
and so this armament, having failed disgracefully, returned to Asia.
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