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The Athenians, and the force drawn up with them, who formed one half
of the army, marched along the shore, where the country was low and
level; but the way for the Lacedaemonians and the troops with them,
lay across hills and a torrent-course. Hence, while the
Lacedaemonians were effecting their their passage round, the
Athenians on the other wing had already closed with the enemy. So
long as the wicker bucklers of the Persians continued standing, they
made a stout defence, and had not even the worst of the battle; but
when the Athenians, and the allies with them, wishing to make the
victory their own, and not share it with the Lacedaemonians, cheered
each other on with shouts, and attacked them with the utmost
fierceness, then at last the face of things became changed. For,
bursting through the line of shields, and rushing forwards in a body,
the Greeks fell upon the Persians; who, though they bore the charge
and for a long time maintained their ground, yet at length took refuge
in their intrenchment. Here the Athenians themselves, together with
those who followed them in the line of battle, the Corinthians, the
Sicyonians, and the Troezenians, pressed so closely on the steps of
their flying foes, that they entered along with them into the
fortress. And now, when even their fortress was taken, the
barbarians no longer offered resistance, but fled hastily away, all
save only the Persians. They still continued to fight in knots of a
few men against the Greeks, who kept pouring into the intrenchment.
And here, while two of the Persian commanders fled, two fell upon
the field: Artayntes and Ithamitres, who were leaders of the fleet,
escaped; Mardontes, and the commander of the land force, Tigranes,
died fighting.
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