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On hear- ing this, the Ephors, as long as it was day, publicly disported themselves in easy-going festival fashion ; for it was their festival of the Hyaciiithia. But in the night they selected five thousand Spartans, each of whom had seven Helots to attend upon him, and 5 sent them forth without the knowledge of the Athe- nians. So when Aristides came before them with re- newed invectives, they laughed and said he was but a sleepy babbler, for that their army was already in Arcadia on its marc...h against the " strangers " (they called the Persians strangers). But Aristides de- clared they were jesting out of all season, forasmuch as they were deceiving their friends instead of their enemies. ORACLE FROM DELPHI 141 This is the way Idomeneus tells the story. But in the decree which Aristides caused to be passed, he himself is not named as envoy, but Cimon, Xan- thippus, and Myronides. XI. Having been elected general with sole powers in view of the expected battle, he came to Plataea at ' the head of eight thousand Athenian hop- The Delphic lites.
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