Histories

When the Phocians were besieged on +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus, they had with them the diviner Tellias of +Elis [21.4,37.8833] (Perseus) Elis; Tellias devised a stratagem for them: he covered six hundred of the bravest Phocians with gypsum, themselves and their armor, and led them to attack the Thessalians by night, bidding them slay whomever they should see not whitened.