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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt:...He would pass up out of the valleys of A2 or A3, and across the Asopus ridges. This is confirmed by the fact that he did not see the Athenians in the plain, who would be hidden by that part of tbe Asopus ridge which runs north from the raos 'Iwains. Of the C--course taken by the Athenians I shall speak for clearness' sake later. The Lacedaemonians then send a message for help to the Athenians. Then they are attacked by the Persians from behind a barrier of shields with bow and arrow. For some time the Greeks suffer severe losses without moving, since the sacrifices are unfavourable. Pausanias turns towards the Heraeum of Plataea and calls upon the goddess, and while he is doing this the Tegeans charge the Persians. Moreover, immediately after his prayer the Lacedaemonian sacrifices become favourable. The combat then becomes a hand-to-hand one, and an obstinate struggle takes place: f Tap avrb To Arjp.yTpiov. The struggle would seem to have taken place at the north or bottom end of ridge 2 and along the valleys of A4 and A5, on either side of Long Eidge, on which is the site which I conjecture to be that of the Tep.cvos of Eleusinian Demeter. It is to be noticed that this fight took place out of sight of the Greek centre which had fled to Plataea, as is evidenced by the words in which Herodotus describes the receipt of the news of the battle by the latter: lv Se Tovtw T3 yivop.evta j6fita ayyeWerai Toict' aXAoicri 'EXAijcrt Touti Terayp.ivotxri ircpl To 'Hpaiov Ko.1 airoyeiojicvotoi, ris p.as, Oti p.dx" Ti yeyove Ko.1 viKwev ol p.cra. Havo-aviiw. This fact, taken in conjunction with the contours of the ground, shows with a certain amount of accuracy where the fight must have taken place. The Lacedaemonians' left must have been near the...