ime that men shall live a memorial such as not even
Harmodios and Aristogeiton have left. For now the Athenians have come
to a danger the greatest to which they have ever come since they were
a people; and on the one hand, if they submit to the Medes, it is
determined what they shall suffer, being delivered over to Hippias,
while on the other hand, if this city shall gain the victory, it may
become the first of the cities of Hellas. How this may happen and how it
comes to thee of all men 99 to have the decision of these matters, I
am now about to tell. Of us the generals, who are ten in number, the
opinions are divided, the one party urging that we fight a battle and
the others that we do not fight. Now if we do not, I expect that some
great spirit of discord will fall upon the minds of the Athenians and
so shake them that they shall go over to the Medes; but if we fight a
battle before any unsoundness appear in any part of the Athenian people,
then we are able to gain the victory in the fight, if the gods grant
equal conditions. These things then all belong to thee and depend
on thee; for if thou attach thyself to my opinions, thou hast both a
fatherland which is free and a native city which shall be the first
among the cities of Hellas; but if thou choose the opinion of those who
are earnest against fighting, thou shalt have the opposite of those good
things of which I told thee.".

110. Thus speaking Miltiades gained Callimachos to his side; and the
opinion of the polemarch being added, it was thus determined to fight
a battle. After this, those generals whose opinion was in favour of
fighting, as the turn of each one of them to command for the day 100
came round, gave over their command to Miltiades; and he, accepting
it, would not however yet bring about a battle, until his own turn to
command had come..

111. And when it came round to him, then the Athenians were drawn up for
battle in the order which here follows:--On the right wing the polemarch
Callimachos was leader (for the custom of the Athenians then was this,
that the polemarch should have the right wing); and he leading, next
after him came the tribes in order as they were numbered one after
another, and last were drawn up the Plataians occupying the left wing:
for 101 ever since this battle, when the Athenians offer sacrifices in
the solemn assemblies 102 which are made at the four-yearly festivals,
103 the herald of the Athenians prays thus, "that bles