[202] Herodot. viii, 40, 71, 73.
[203] Herodot. viii, 66. Diodorus calls the battle of Thermopylæ a Kadmeian victory for Xerxes,—which is true only in the letter, but not in the spirit: he doubtless lost a greater number of men in the pass than the Greeks, but the advantage which he gained was prodigious (Diodor. xi, 12); and Diodorus himself sets forth the terror of the Greeks after the event (xi, 13-15).
[204] Plutarch, De Herodot. Malignit. p. 864; Herodot. viii, 34.
[205] Herodot. viii, 44, 50.
[206] Herodot. viii, 66.
[207] Thucyd. i, 69. τόν τε γὰρ Μῆδον αὐτοὶ ἴσμεν ἀπὸ περάτων γῆς πρότερον ἐπὶ Πελοπόννησον ἐλθόντα, πρὶν τὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἀξίως προαπαντῆσαι.
[208] Herodot. viii, 71. συνδραμόντες ἐκ τῶν πολίων.
[209] Herodot. viii, 74.
[210] Herodot. vii, 139.
[211] Plutarch, Themistoklês, c. 9. ἅμα μὲν ὀργὴ τῆς προδοσίας εἶχε τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, ἅμα δὲ δυσθυμία καὶ κατήφεια μεμονωμένους.