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affairs of Mardonios would fall out.

131. The Hellenes on their part were roused both by the coming on of
spring and by the presence of Mardonios in Thessaly. Their land-army had
not yet begun to assemble, when the fleet arrived at Egina, in
number one hundred and ten ships, and the commander and admiral was
Leotychides, who was the son of Menares, the son of Hegesilaos, the son
of Hippocratides, the son of Leotychides, the son of Anaxilaos, the son
of Archidemos, the son of Anaxandriddes, the son of Theopompos, the son
of Nicander, the son of Charilaos, 98 the son of Eunomos, the son of
Polydectes, the son of Prytanis, the son of Euryphon, 99 the son of
Procles, the son of Aristodemos, the son of Aristomachos, the son of
Cleodaios, the son of Hyllos, the son of Heracles, being of the other
royal house. 100 These all, except the two 101 enumerated first
after Leotychides, had been kings of Sparta. And of the Athenians the
commander was Xanthippos the son of Ariphon.

132. When all the ships had arrived at Egina, there came Ionian envoys
to the camp of the Hellenes, who also came a short time before this to
Sparta and asked the Lacedemonians to set Ionia free; and of them
one was Herodotus the son of Basileides. These had banded themselves
together and had plotted to put to death Strattis the despot of Chios,
being originally seven in number; but when one of those who took part
with them gave information of it and they were discovered to be plotting
against him, then the remaining six escaped from Chios and came both to
Sparta and also at this time to Egina, asking the Hellenes to sail over
to Ionia: but they with difficulty brought them forward as far as Delos;
for the parts beyond this were all fearful to the Hellenes, since they
were without experience of those regions and everything seemed to them
to be filled with armed force, while their persuasion was that it was as
long a voyage to Samos as to the Pillars of Heracles. Thus at the same
time it so chanced that the Barbarians dared sail no further up towards
the West than Samos, being smitten with fear, and the Hellenes no
further down towards the East than Delos, when the Chians made request
of them. So fear was guard of the space which lay between them.

133. The Hellenes, I say, sailed to Delos; and Mardonios meanwhile had
been wintering in Thessaly. From thence he sent round a man, a native of
Europos, whose name was Mys, to the various Oracles, charging h