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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 Excerpt:...Decelea. The Boeotian chiefs had employed their Asopian neighbours as guides, who conducted Mardonius first to Sphendaleas, and thence to Tanagra. At Tanagra, Mardonius passed the night, and the next day came to Scolos,.in the Theban territory. Here the lands of the Thebans, though the friends and allies of the Medes, were laid waste, not from any enmity, but from the urgent Athens and Corinth: it took its name either from Megaras, a son of Neptune, or Megareus, a son of Apollo. It was1 the native place of Euclid the Socratic, and of Theognisk-There was a place of the same name in Sicily. The Megara here mentioned retains its ancient name.--T. This people enjoyed no great degree of reputation, as appears among other instances from an oracle preserved in Snidas, the purport of which is this: You people of Megara are neither the thirds the fourth, or even the twelfth in rank, in short you are good for nothing, Out t» aftiftu. IIow is this to be reconciled with the fact, for the Persians were at Delphi and in Phocis, which is much more to the west. Probably, says Kennel, Herodotus was speaking only of their progress from Attica. Vol. IV. Y urgent necessities of the army. The general wa9 desirous tu fortify his camp, and to have some place of refuge in case of defeat. His camp extended from Erythrae, by Hysios, as far as Plataea, on the banks of the Asopus. It w as protected by a wall, which did not continue the whole extent of the camp, but which occupied a space of ten stadia in each of the four fronts. Whilst the Barbarians were employed on this work, Attaginus, the son of Phrynon, a Theban, gave a magnificent entertainment, to which Mardonius and fifty Persians of the highest rank w ere invited.. They accepted the summons, and the feast was given at Th...