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the temple of Athene Pronaia, there happened to them in addition
portents yet greater than that which had come to pass before: for though
that too was a marvel, that arms of war should appear of themselves laid
forth outside the cell, yet this, which happened straightway after that,
is worthy of marvel even beyond all other prodigies. When the Barbarians
in their approach were opposite the temple of Athene Pronaia, at this
point of time from the heaven there fell thunderbolts upon them, and
from Parnassos two crags were broken away and rushed down upon them with
a great crashing noise falling upon many of them, while from the temple
of Pronaia there was heard a shout, and a battle-cry was raised.

38. All these things having come together, there fell fear upon the
Barbarians; and the Delphians having perceived that they were flying,
came down after them and slew a great number of them; and those who
survived fled straight to Boeotia. These who returned of the Barbarians
reported, as I am informed, that in addition to this which we have said
they saw also other miraculous things; for two men (they said) in
full armour and of stature more than human followed them slaying and
pursuing.

39. These two the Delphians say were the native heroes Phylacos and
Autonooes, whose sacred enclosures are about the temple, that of Phylacos
being close by the side of the road above the temple of Pronaia and that
of Autonooes near Castalia under the peak called Hyampeia. Moreover the
rocks which fell from Parnassos were still preserved even to my time,
lying in the sacred enclosure of Athene Pronaia, into which they fell
when they rushed through the ranks of the Barbarians. Such departure had
these men from the temple.

40. Meanwhile the fleet of the Hellenes after leaving Artemision put in
to land at Salamis at the request of the Athenians: and for this reason
the Athenians requested them to put in to Salamis, namely in order that
they might remove out of Attica to a place of safety their children
and their wives, and also deliberate what they would have to do; for in
their present case they meant to take counsel afresh, because they had
been deceived in their expectation. For they had thought to find the
Peloponnesians in full force waiting for the Barbarians in Boeotia; they
found however nothing of this, but they were informed on the contrary
that the Peloponnesians were fortifying the Isthmus with a wall, valuing
above all thi