way: and the
Thessalians, when he came to them, offered him hospitality and inquired
concerning the rest of the army, not knowing anything of that which had
happened at Plataia; and Artabazos knowing that if he should tell them
the whole truth about the fighting, he would run the risk of being
destroyed, both himself and the whole army which was with him, (for he
thought that they would all set upon him if they were informed of that
which had happened),--reflecting, I say, upon this he had told nothing of
it to the Phokians, and now to the Thessalians he spoke as follows:
"I, as you see, Thessalians, am earnest to march by the shortest way to
Thracia; and I am in great haste, having been sent with these men for a
certain business from the army; moreover Mardonios himself and his army
are shortly to be looked for here, marching close after me. To him give
entertainment and show yourselves serviceable, for ye will not in the
end repent of so doing." Having thus said he continued to march his army
with haste through Thessaly and Macedonia straight for Thracia, being
in truth earnest to proceed and going through the land by the shortest
possible way: 99 and so he came to Byzantion, having left behind him
great numbers of his army, who had either been cut down by the Thracians
on the way or had been overcome by hunger and fatigue; 100 and from
Byzantion he passed over in ships. He himself 101 then thus made his
return back to Asia.

90. Now on the same day on which the defeat took place at Plataia,
another took place also, as fortune would have it, at Mycale in Ionia.
For when the Hellenes who had come in the ships with Leotychides the
Lacedemonian, were lying at Delos, there came to them as envoys
from Samos Lampon the son of Thrasycles and Athenagoras the son of
Archestratides and Hegesistratos the son of Aristagoras, who had been
sent by the people of Samos without the knowledge either of the Persians
or of the despot Theomestor the son of Androdamas, whom the Persians had
set up to be despot of Samos. When these had been introduced before the
commanders, Hegesistratos spoke at great length using arguments of all
kinds, and saying that so soon as the Ionians should see them they would
at once revolt from the Persians, and that the Barbarians would not wait
for their attack; and if after all they did so, then the Hellenes
would take a prize such as they would never take again hereafter; and
appealing to the gods worshippe