Histories

Herodotus

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

So when they returned to their own land, the Mantineans banished the leaders of their army from the country. After the Mantineans came the men of +Elis [21.4,37.8833] (Perseus) Elis, who also went away extremely upset, and after their departure, they too banished their leaders. Such were the doings of the Mantineans and Eleans.

There was at Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea in the army of the Aeginetans one Lampon, son of Pytheas, a leading man of +Aegina [23.433,37.75] (inhabited place), Aegina, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aegina. He hastened to Pausanias with really outrageous counsel and coming upon him, said to him:

“son of Cleombrotus, you have done a deed of surpassing greatness and glory; the god has granted to you in saving Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas to have won greater renown than any Greek whom we know. But now you must finish what remains for the rest, so that your fame may be greater still and so that no barbarian will hereafter begin doing reckless deeds against the Greeks.