Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

and with many words of praise, they sent him home with the three hundred picked men of Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta who are called Knights to escort him as far as the borders of Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea. Themistocles was the only man of whom we know to whom the Spartans gave this escort.