Histories

Herodotus

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

Immediately after the arrival of this woman, the men of +Mantinea [22.3833,37.6167] (Perseus) Mantinea came when everything was already over. Upon learning that they had come too late for the battle, they were extremely upset and said that they ought to punish themselves for that.

When they heard that those Medes with Artabazus were fleeing, they would have pursued them as far as +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly. The Lacedaemonians, however, would not permit them to pursue the fleeing men.

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.