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Excerpt from Herodotus Book IX, Vol. 1 of 2: Text The Athenians and Spartans retire. 57. Third position of the Greeks on the Moloeis, etc. 58. Mardonius' Opinion of the Lacedaemonians. Attack of the Persians on the Lacedaemonians. 60. The Athenians attacked by the Greek allies of Mardonius. Critical position of Pausanias. 61. The Battle of Plataea. 62. The Battle continued. 63. Death of Mardonius. 64. Victory of Pausanias. The Persians y to their camp. 66. Treachery of Artabazus. 67. Defeat of the Greek allies, who y to Thebes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.