§6.117.1ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἐν Μαραθῶνι μάχῃ ἀπέθανον τῶν βαρβάρων κατὰ ἑξακισχιλίους καὶ τετρακοσίους ἄνδρας, Ἀθηναίων δὲ ἑκατὸν καὶ ἐνενήκοντα καὶ δύο.
In this battle of Marathon there fell of the barbarians about six thousand four hundred men, and of the Athenians one hundred and ninety-two.
ἔπεσον μὲν ἀμφοτέρων τοσοῦτοι.
Such was the number of those who fell on both sides.
§6.117.2συνήνεικε δὲ αὐτόθι θῶμα γενέσθαι τοιόνδε, Ἀθηναῖον ἄνδρα Ἐπίζηλον τὸν Κουφαγόρεω ἐν τῇ συστάσι μαχόμενόν τε καὶ ἄνδρα γινόμενον ἀγαθὸν τῶν ὀμμάτων στερηθῆναι οὔτε πληγέντα οὐδὲν τοῦ σώματος οὔτε βληθέντα, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τῆς ζόης διατελέειν ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ χρόνου ἐόντα τυφλόν.
And it happened that a wonder of this kind occurred there: an Athenian man, Epizelus the son of Couphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and behaving as a brave man, was deprived of the sight of his eyes, though he had been neither struck anywhere on his body nor hit with a missile; and from that time forward he continued to be blind for the rest of his life.
§6.117.3λέγειν δὲ αὐτὸν περὶ τοῦ πάθεος ἤκουσα τοιόνδε τινὰ λόγον, ἄνδρα οἱ δοκέειν ὁπλίτην ἀντιστῆναι μέγαν, τοῦ τὸ γένειον τὴν ἀσπίδα πᾶσαν σκιάζειν· τὸ δὲ φάσμα τοῦτο ἑωυτὸν μὲν παρεξελθεῖν, τὸν δὲ ἑωυτοῦ παραστάτην ἀποκτεῖναι.
And I heard that he himself told a story of this kind about his suffering: that it seemed to him that a tall hoplite stood against him, whose beard overshadowed his whole shield; and this phantom passed him by, but killed his neighbor who stood next to him.
ταῦτα μὲν δὴ Ἐπίζηλον ἐπυθόμην λέγειν.
This is what I learned that Epizelus said.