the drought, with the flies fwarraing from the lake, to return in
fummer. He proceeded three or four miles northward, and
came *to the fea-fhore oppofite to Eubcea, and to a ruined town
fltuated in the ifthmus, and called Tauro-caftro or Hebrasp-
caftro, antiently RKamnus. The mountain ends here in un-
paflable rocks and precipices.
RaAtehus Was fixty ftadia of feven miles And a half from
Marathon, in the road going from thence to Qfopiis by Tea.
It was famous for a temple of Nemefis, now reduced to a heap
lying on a hill in the middle o f the ifthmus. The ftatue was
exceedingly celebrated, and ten cubits or fifteen feet high. I t
was made by Phidias out o f a block of marble, which the
Barbarians* intending to eredt a trophy in Attica, had transported
fhom Paros. The ruins* con fitting of white marble; are
vifible afar off* I Wifhed to examine the fpot, but Was Wo
flightly attended to advance farther on that fide* the Turks o f
Eubcea bearing a very bad character.
TH'E Barbarians eroded from Ionia under Daris and. Art-a-
phernes* with a fleet of fix hundred triremes. They reduced
Caryftus and Erfettia, and fet the flaves taken at the fatter town
on ftiore on iEgileia, an ifland belonging to Styra near Caryftus.
They wtefe do minded by Hippias to the plain o f .Marathon, as
a place fuited to their cavalry. The Athenian army did net
exceed nine thoufand* reckoning the old men and the flaves.
A thoufand Platseenfians, who joined it while drawn up in the
Heracleum or fecred portion Of Hercules at Marathon, were
placed in .the deft wing. The line was xjf equal extent with
that of the enemy, arid the diftance between diem; rrotlefs than
a mile. The Barbarians broke the centre, which was-thin and
weak, and purfued the routed troops up the country:; but the
wings, which conquered, uniting to receive them on their return,
they alfo were beaten, and the daughter reached to the ftiips, -of
which feven were feksed. Many of the fugitives, from confu-
fion and ignorance, took toward the marfh, and, crouding one
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on another* were driven into it. ' -.Six thoufand and fewr hundred
were flain. The lofs of the-Athenians amounted only to
one hundred and ninety two. It had been ufual to inter the
eitixens who perifhed in war, ati the publu: expenfe* m the
Ceramictts wifooatfoe city; but the death c f thefe was tkemed
uncommonly meritorious. They, were buried and a terrow
was made for them, where their bravery had been mamfefted.
The A t h e n i a n s continued to commemorate this viftory, which
was obtained in the fuift year of foe feventy fecond Olympiad ,
in foe time of Plutarch.
1 F a u s a n i a s examined' fo e field o f ba ttle 1 ab out A x hundred
years after this event. H is a c co h n f Of it is’la>s follows. “ The
<c barrow o f the Athenians , is im th e p lain, and on i t are p illars
«■ containing th e names o r th e 'd e a d fender t h o f e / f the tribes
« to which they belonged; and there is p oth e r for the PlaJaJ-
« enfians and flaves; and a diftind monument o f MÜfiddes,
« foe commander, who fnrvived fois exploit; ; There may be
• «< perceived nightly, the neighing o f horfes and the clafoihg of
« arms No perfon has derived any good from' waiting
«* T)urpofe to behold foe fpedres; but foeir anger^does not fali
« 4 any one* who happens to fee them without defign. T h e
« Marathonians werfliip thofe who were flam m fo e battle,
« M i them heroes.— A trophy allb ^ w h i t e marble has
: « been ereded. The Athenians fey the Medes were buried,
gÉ religion requiring that the cótpfe of a man be covered with
<t earth . though I was not able to find any place of % " tu^e »
•< 'for there m no barrow or other flgn vrlibie, ’but they
« forew them prownfeueufly into a pit.— Above the lake
i* ^re foe marble-mongers 'è f foe hbffes of Art^hernes, with
« marks of a tent on thé rocks.
M a n y centuries have elapfed fince the age o f Paufanias^but
foe principal barrow, it É lively, font df the gallant Athenians,
* Before Chrift*' 491.
ftill