e the Lacedemonians were yet going round, those
upon the other wing were already beginning the fight; and as long as
the wicker-work shields of the Persians still remained upright, they
continued to defend themselves and had rather the advantage in the
fight; but when the troops of the Athenians and of those ranged next to
them, desiring that the achievement should belong to them and not to
the Lacedemonians, with exhortations to one another set themselves more
vigorously to the work, then from that time forth the fortune of the
fight was changed; for these pushed aside the wicker-work shields and
fell upon the Persians with a rush all in one body, and the Persians
sustained their first attack and continued to defend themselves for
a long time, but at last they fled to the wall; and the Athenians,
Corinthians, Sikyonians and Troizenians, for that was the order in which
they were ranged, followed close after them and rushed in together
with them to the space within the wall: and when the wall too had been
captured, then the Barbarians no longer betook themselves to resistance,
but began at once to take flight, excepting only the Persians, who
formed into small groups and continued to fight with the Hellenes as
they rushed in within the wall. Of the commanders of the Persians
two made their escape and two were slain; Artayntes and Ithamitres
commanders of the fleet escaped, while Mardontes and the commander of
the land-army, Tigranes, were slain..

103. Now while the Persians were still fighting, the Lacedemonians and
those with them arrived, and joined in carrying through the rest of the
work; and of the Hellenes themselves many fell there and especially many
of the Sikyonians, together with their commander Perilaos. And those of
the Samians who were serving in the army, being in the camp of the Medes
and having been deprived of their arms, when they saw that from the very
first the battle began to be doubtful, 111 did as much as they could,
endeavouring to give assistance to the Hellenes; and the other Ionians
seeing that the Samians had set the example, themselves also upon that
made revolt from the Persians and attacked the Barbarians..

104. The Milesians too had been appointed to watch the passes of the
Persians 112 in order to secure their safety, so that if that should
after all come upon them which actually came, they might have guides
and so get safe away to the summits of Mycale,--the Milesians, I say, had
bee