Dorians to pass in hither." He said: "Woman, I am not
a Dorian, but an Achaian." So then, paying no attention to the ominous
speech, he made his attempt and then was expelled again with the
Lacedemonians; but the rest of the men the Athenians laid in bonds to
be put to death, and among them Timesitheos the Delphian, with regard to
whom I might mention very great deeds of strength and courage which he
performed.

73. These then having been thus laid in bonds were put to death; and the
Athenians after this sent for Cleisthenes to return, and also for the
seven hundred families which had been driven out by Cleomenes: and
then they sent envoys to Sardis, desiring to make an alliance with
the Persians; for they were well assured that the Lacedemonians and
Cleomenes had been utterly made their foes. So when these envoys had
arrived at Sardis and were saying that which they had been commanded
to say, Artaphrenes the son of Hystaspes, the governor of Sardis, asked
what men these were who requested to be allies of the Persians, and
where upon the earth they dwelt; and having heard this from the envoys,
he summed up his answer to them thus, saying that if the Athenians
were willing to give earth and water to Dareios, he was willing to make
alliance with them, but if not, he bade them begone: and the envoys
taking the matter upon themselves said that they were willing to do so,
because they desired to make the alliance.

74. These, when they returned to their own land, were highly censured:
and Cleomenes meanwhile, conceiving that he had been outrageously dealt
with by the Athenians both with words and with deeds, was gathering
together an army from the whole of the Peloponnese, not declaring the
purpose for which he was gathering it, but desiring to take vengeance on
the people of the Athenians, and intending to make Isagoras despot; for
he too had come out of the Acropolis together with Cleomenes. Cleomenes
then with a large army entered Eleusis, while at the same time the
Boeotians by agreement with him captured Oinoe and Hysiai, the demes
which lay upon the extreme borders of Attica, and the Chalkidians on the
other side invaded and began to ravage various districts of Attica. The
Athenians then, though attacked on more sides than one, thought that
they would remember the Boeotians and Chalkidians afterwards, and
arrayed themselves against the Peloponnesians who were in Eleusis.

75. Then as the armies were just about the j