stroyed the
Skironian way, and after this (having so determined in counsel with one
another) they began to build a wall across the Isthmus; and as they were
many myriads 41 and every man joined in the work, the work proceeded
fast; for stones and bricks and pieces of timber and baskets full of
sand were carried to it continually, and they who had thus come to help
paused not at all in their work either by night or by day.

72. Now those of the Hellenes who came in full force to the Isthmus to
help their country were these,--the Lacedemonians, the Arcadians of every
division, the Eleians, Corinthians, Sikyonians, Epidaurians, Phliasians,
Troizenians and Hermionians. These were they who came to the help of
Hellas in her danger and who had apprehension for her, while the rest
of the Peloponnesians showed no care: and the Olympic and Carneian
festivals had by this time gone by.

73. Now Peloponnesus is inhabited by seven races; and of these, two are
natives of the soil and are settled now in the place where they dwelt of
old, namely the Arcadians and the Kynurians; and one race, that of the
Achaians, though it did not remove from the Peloponnese, yet removed in
former time from its own land and dwells now in that which was not its
own. The remaining races, four in number, have come in from without,
namely the Dorians, Aitolians, Dryopians and Lemnians. Of the Dorians
there are many cities and of great renown; of the Aitolians, Elis
alone; of the Dryopians, Hermion 42 and Asine, which latter is opposite
Cardamyle in the Laconian land; and of the Lemnians, all the Paroreatai.
The Kynurians, who are natives of the soil, seem alone to be Ionians,
but they have become Dorians completely because they are subject to the
Argives and by lapse of time, being originally citizens of Orneai or
the dwellers in the country round Orneai. 43 Of these seven nations the
remaining cities, except those which I enumerated just now, stood aside
and did nothing; and if one may be allowed to speak freely, in thus
standing aside they were in fact taking the side of the Medes.

74. Those at the Isthmus were struggling with the labour which I have
said, since now they were running a course in which their very being was
at stake, and they did not look to have any brilliant success with their
ships: while those who were at Salamis, though informed of this
work, were yet dismayed, not fearing so much for themselves as for
Peloponnesus. For some time th