pon them. The famine, the dangers, and the
extraordinary occurrences which had befallen them during the last
two days, had much shattered all their imaginations. At that cry,
'The enemy is at hand!' the Gauls, suddenly aroused, seized their
arms, and believing the camp already entered, they threw themselves
upon, and mutually slaughtered, each other. Their consternation was
so great, that they believed that each word which struck their ears
was uttered in Greek; as if they had forgotten their own proper
tongue. Besides, the darkness of the night did not permit them
either to recognise each other, or to distinguish the shape of
their bucklers. Day put an end to that frightful _melee_; but
during the night the Phocian shepherds, who remained in the fields
to watch their flocks, ran to inform the Greeks of the disorder
which was evident in the Gaulish camp. They attributed so
unexpected an event to the intervention of the god Pan, from whom,
according to the religious faith of the Greeks, alarms without any
real cause proceeded; full of ardour and of confidence, they
attacked the rearguard of the enemy. The Gauls had already resumed
their march, but with languor, as men discouraged, worn out by
diseases, famine, and fatigue. On their line of march the
population carried off the cattle and provisions, so that they
could not procure any subsistence without the utmost difficulty,
and at the point of the sword. The historians reckon at 10,000 the
number of those who sank under these misfortunes; the cold and the
nocturnal combat had cut off as many more, and 6000 had perished at
the assault of Delphi: there remained then to the Brenn no more
than 35,000 men when he rejoined the main body of his army, in the
plains watered by the Cephisus, on the day after his departure from
Thermopylae."--(I. 171-178.)

The Brenn, overwhelmed with grief at his misfortune, no sooner saw his
army free from immediate danger than he put himself to death. His
successor, following his dying advice, slaughtered 10,000 of the
wounded, and continued his retreat:--

"As he approached Thermopylae, the Greeks, issuing forth from an
ambuscade, threw themselves on his rearguard, which they cut to
pieces. It was in this miserable state that the Gauls gained the
camp of Heraclea. They remained there f