lope of Kithairon from fear of the cavalry,
while the Athenians were marching below in the direction of the plain..

57. As for Amonpharetos, he did not at first believe that Pausanias
would ever venture to leave him and his men behind, and he stuck to it
that they should stay there and not leave their post; but when Pausanias
and his troops were well in front, then he perceived that they had
actually left him behind, and he made his division take up their arms
and led them slowly towards the main body. This, when it had got away
about ten furlongs, stayed for the division of Amompharetos, halting
at the river Moloeis and the place called Argiopion, where also there
stands a temple of the Eleusinian Demeter: and it stayed there for this
reason, namely in order that of Amonpharetos and his division should not
leave the place where they had been posted, but should remain there, it
might be able to come back to their assistance. So Amompharetos and his
men were coming up to join them, and the cavalry also of the Barbarians
was at the same time beginning to attack them in full force: for the
horsemen did on this day as they had been wont to do every day; and
seeing the place vacant in which the Hellenes had been posted on the
former days, they rode their horses on continually further, and as soon
as they came up with them they began to attack them.

58. Then Mardonios, when he was informed that the Hellenes had departed
during the night, and when he saw their place deserted, called Thorax of
Larissa and his brothers Eurypylos and Thrasydeios, and said: "Sons
of Aleuas, will ye yet say anything, 63 now that ye see these places
deserted? For ye who dwell near them were wont to say that the
Lacedemonians did not fly from a battle, but were men unsurpassed in
war; and these men ye not only saw before this changing from their post,
but now we all of us see that they have run away during the past night;
and by this they showed clearly, when the time came for them to contend
in battle with those who were in truth the best of all men, that after
all they were men of no worth, who had been making a display of valour
among Hellenes, a worthless race. As for you, since ye had had no
experience of the Persians, I for my part was very ready to excuse you
when ye praised these, of whom after all ye knew something good; but
much more I marvelled at Artabazos that he should have been afraid of
the Lacedemonians, and that having been afraid