w his probable cause of it. "It
happened," says he, "that there was then at Sparta a certain stranger of
Tegea, named Chileus, who had some friends amongst the Ephori, between
whom and him there was mutual hospitality. He then persuaded them to
send forth the army, telling them that the fortification on the Isthmus,
by which they had fenced in Peloponnesus, would be of no avail if the
Athenians joined themselves with Mardonius." (Ibid. ix. 9.) This
counsel then drew Pausanias with his army to Plataea; but if any
private business had kept that Chileus at Tegea, Greece had never been
victorious.

Again, not knowing what to do with the Athenians, he tosses to and fro
that city, sometimes extolling it, and sometimes debasing it. He says
that, contending for the second place with the Tegeatans they made
mention of the Heraclidae, alleged their acts against the Amazons,
and the sepulchres of the Peloponnesians that died under the walls
of Cadmea, and at last brought down their discourse to the battle of
Marathon, saying, however, that they would be satisfied with the command
of the left wing. (Ibid. ix. 26, 27.) A little after, he says, Pausanias
and the Spartans yielded them the first place, desiring them to fight in
the right wing against the Persians and give them the left, who excused
themselves as not skilled in fighting against the barbarians. (Ibid. ix.
46.) Now it is a ridiculous thing, to be unwilling to fight against an
enemy unless one has been used to him. But he says farther, that the
other Greeks being led by their captains to encamp in another place, as
soon as they were moved, the horse fled with joy towards Plataea, and
in their flight came as far as Juno's temple. (Ibid. ix. 52.) In
which place indeed he charges them all in general with disobedience,
cowardice, and treason. At last he says, that only the Lacedaemonians
and the Tegeates fought with the barbarians, and the Athenians with the
Thebans; equally defrauding all the other cities of their part in the
honor of the victory, whilst he affirms that none of them joined in
the fight, but that all of them, sitting still hard by in their arms,
betrayed and forsook those who fought for them; that the Phliasians and
Megarians indeed, when they heard Pausanias had got the better, came
in later, and falling on the Theban horse, were all cut off; that the
Corinthians were not at the battle, and that after the victory, by
hastening on over the hills, they escaped