Helen had been removed, then they say that the men
of Dekeleia, or as some say Dekelos himself, being aggrieved by the
insolence of Theseus and fearing for all the land of the Athenians, told
them the whole matter and led them to Aphidnai, which Titakos who was
sprung from the soil delivered up by treachery to the sons of Tyndareus.
In consequence of this deed the Dekeleians have had continually freedom
from dues in Sparta and front seats at the games, 84 privileges which
exist still to this day; insomuch that even in the war which many years
after these events arose between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians,
when the Lacedemonians laid waste all the rest of Attica, they abstained
from injury to Dekeleia..

74. To this deme belonged Sophanes, who showed himself the best of all
the Athenians in this battle; and of him there are two different stories
told: one that he carried an anchor of iron bound by chains of bronze
to the belt of his corslet; and this he threw whensoever he came up with
the enemy, in order, they say, that the enemy when they came forth out
of their ranks might not be able to move him from his place; and when a
flight of his opponents took place, his plan was to take up the anchor
first and then pursue after them. This story is reported thus; but the
other of the stories, disputing the truth of that which has been told
above, is reported as follows, namely that upon his shield, which was
ever moving about and never remaining still, he bore an anchor as a
device, and not one of iron bound to his corslet.

75. There was another illustrious deed done too by Sophanes; for when
the Athenians besieged Egina he challenged to a fight and slew Eurybates
the Argive, 85 one who had been victor in the five contests 86 at the
games. To Sophanes himself it happened after these events that when he
was general of the Athenians together with Leagros the son of Glaucon,
he was slain after proving himself a good man by the Edonians at Daton,
fighting for the gold mines.

76. When the Barbarians had been laid low by the Hellenes at Plataia,
there approached to these a woman, the concubine of Pharandates the son
of Teaspis a Persian, coming over of her own free will from the enemy,
who when she perceived that the Persians had been destroyed and that the
Hellenes were the victors, descended from her carriage and came up to
the Lacedemonians while they were yet engaged in the slaughter.
This woman had adorned herself w