Histories

Athenades slew Epialtes for a different reason, which I will tell later in my history,[*](The expression suggests Herodotus' intention of continuing his history beyond 479, the year with which Book IX ends; but see How-Wells ad loc.) but he was given no less honor by the Lacedaemonians. It was in this way, then, that Epialtes was later killed.

There is another story told, namely that Onetes son of Phanagoras, a Carystian, and Corydallus of Anticyra are the ones who gave the king this information and guided the Persians around the mountain, but I find it totally incredible.