hsafed her timely aid,
And kept the citadel of Hellas free
From rude assaults of Persia's archery.

These things he should rather have written and recorded, than have
inserted Aminocles's killing of his son.

After he had abundantly satisfied himself with the accusations brought
against Themistocles,--of whom he says that, unknown to the other
captains, he incessantly robbed and spoiled the islands,--(Herodotus,
viii. 112.) he at length openly takes away the crown of victory from the
Athenians, and sets it on the head of the Aeginetans, writing thus: "The
Greeks having sent the first-fruits of their spoils to Delphi, asked in
general of the god, whether he had a sufficient part of the booty and
were contented with it. He answered, that he had enough of all the other
Greeks, but not of the Aeginetans for he expected a donary of them, as
having won the greatest honor in the battle at Salamis." (Ibid. viii.
122.) See here how he attributes not his fictions to the Scythians, to
the Persians, or to the Egyptians, as Aesop did his to the ravens and
apes; but using the very person of the Pythian Apollo, he takes from
Athens the chief honor of the battle at Salamis. And the second place
in honor being given to Themistocles at the Isthmus by all the other
captains,--every one of which attributed to himself the first degree of
valor, but give the next to Themistocles,--and the judgment not coming
to a determination, when he should have reprehended the ambition of
the captains, he said, that all the Greeks weighed anchor from thence
through envy, not being willing to give the chief honor of the victory
to Themistocles. (Ibid. viii. 123, 124.)

In his ninth and last book, having nothing left to vent his malice on
but the Lacedaemonians and their glorious action against the barbarians
at Plataea, he writes, that the Spartans at first feared lest the
Athenians should suffer themselves to be persuaded by Mardonius to
forsake the other Greeks; but that now, the Isthmus being fortified,
they, supposing all to be safe at Peloponnesus, slighted the rest,
feasting and making merry at home, and deluding and delaying the
Athenian ambassadors. (Herodotus, ix. 8. See also viii. 141.) How then
did there go forth from Sparta to Plataea a thousand and five men,
having every one of them with him seven Helots? Or how came it that,
exposing themselves to so many dangers, they vanquished and overthrew
so many thousand barbarians? Hear no