o us who have such sorry fare as ye see here, in order
to take it away from us." Thus it is said that Pausanias spoke to the
commanders of the Hellenes.

83. However, 92 in later time after these events many of the Plataians
also found chests of gold and of silver and of other treasures; and
moreover afterwards this which follows was seen in the case of the dead
bodies here, after the flesh had been stripped off from the bones; for
the Plataians brought together the bones all to one place:--there was
found, I say, a skull with no suture but all of one bone, and there was
seen also a jaw-bone, that is to say the upper part of the jaw, which
had teeth joined together and all of one bone, both the teeth that bite
and those that grind; and the bones were seen also of a man five cubits
high..

84. The body of Mardonios however had disappeared 93 on the day after
the battle, taken by whom I am not able with certainty to say, but I
have heard the names of many men of various cities who are said to have
buried Mardonios, and I know that many received gifts from Artontes the
son of Mardonios for having done this: who he was however who took up
and buried the body of Mardonios I am not able for certain to discover,
but Dionysophanes an Ephesian is reported with some show of reason to
have been he who buried Mardonios..

85. He then was buried in some such manner as this: and the Hellenes
when they had divided the spoil at Plataia proceeded to bury their dead,
each nation apart by themselves. The Spartans made for themselves three
several burial-places, one in which they buried the younger Spartans,
94 of whom also were Poseidonios, Amompharetos, Philokyon and
Callicrates,--in one of the graves, I say, were laid the younger men, in
the second the rest of the Spartans, and in the third the Helots. These
then thus buried their dead; but the Tegeans buried theirs all together
in a place apart from these, and the Athenians theirs together; and the
Megarians and Phliasians those who had been slain by the cavalry. Of
all these the burial-places had bodies laid in them, but as to the
burial-places of other States which are to be seen at Plataia, these, as
I am informed, are all mere mounds of earth without any bodies in them,
raised by the several peoples on account of posterity, because they were
ashamed of their absence from the fight; for among others there is one
there called the burial-place of the Eginetans, which I hear was rais