ng that they should erect a trophy, peace
was well-nigh destroyed by a dissension among the armed Greeks; but
Aristides, by soothing and counseling the commanders, especially
Leocrates and Myronides, pacified and persuaded them to leave the thing
to the decision of the Greeks. Cleocritus of Corinth rising up, made
people think he would ask the palm for the Corinthians (for next to
Sparta and Athens, Corinth was in greatest estimation); but he delivered
his opinion, to the general admiration, in favor of the Plataeans; and
counseled to take away all contention by giving them the reward and
the glory of the victory, whose being honored could be distasteful to
neither party. This being said, first Aristides gave consent in the name
of the Athenians, and Pausanias then, for the Lacedaemonians. So, being
reconciled, they set apart eighty talents for the Plateans, with which
they built the temple and dedicated the image to Minerva, and adorned
the temple with pictures, which even to this very day retain their
lustre. But the Lacedaemonians and Athenians each erected a trophy apart
by themselves. On their consulting the oracle about offering sacrifice,
Apollo answered that they should dedicate an altar to Jupiter of
freedom, but should not sacrifice till they had extinguished the fires
throughout the country, as having been defiled by the barbarians,
and had kindled unpolluted fire at the common altar at Delphi. The
magistrates of Greece, therefore, went forthwith and compelled such as
had fire to put it out; and Euchidas, a Plataean, promising to fetch
fire with all possible speed, from the altar of the god, ran to Delphi,
and having sprinkled and purified his body, crowned himself with laurel;
and taking the fire from the altar ran back to Plataea, arriving before
sunset, and performing in one day a journey of a thousand furlongs;
and saluting his fellow-citizens and delivering them the fire,
he immediately fell down and a short time after expired. Then the
Plataeans, taking him up, interred him in the temple of Diana Euclia,
setting this inscription over him: "Euchidas ran to Delphi and back
again in one day."

A general assembly of all the Greeks being called, Aristides proposed
a decree, that the deputies and religious representatives of the
Greek states should assemble annually at Plataea, and every fifth year
celebrate the Eleutheria, or games of freedom. And that there should
be a levy upon all Greece, for the war agai