§3.4.6εἴη δʼ ἂν καὶ τὰ μηνίματα ἔκ τε ἡρώων ὁμοῦ καὶ θεῶν ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ τῷ Κλεομένει συνεληλυθότα, ἐπεί τοι καὶ ἰδίᾳ Πρωτεσίλαος ἐν Ἐλαιοῦντι οὐδὲν ἥρως Ἄργου φανερώτερος ἄνδρα Πέρσην ἐτιμωρήσατο Ἀρταΰκτην καὶ Μεγαρεῦσιν οὔ ποτε θεῶν τῶν ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι ὄντων ἐξεγένετο ἱλάσασθαι τὸ μήνιμα γῆν ἐπεργασαμένοις τὴν ἱεράν.
It would seem that the angers both of the heroes and of the gods came together at the same time upon Cleomenes; for indeed, in an individual case, Protesilaus, a hero in Elaeus who was not at all less manifest than the hero Argos, punished the Persian man Artayctes, and it was never possible for the Megarians, who had cultivated the sacred land, to appease the anger of the gods who are in Eleusis.
τὰ δὲ ἐς τοῦ μαντείου τὴν διάπειραν οὐδὲ τὸ παράπαν ἄλλον γε οὐδένα ὅτι μὴ μόνον Κλεομένην τολμήσαντα ἴσμεν.
But as for making trial of the oracle, we know that absolutely no one else ever dared it, except only Cleomenes.
§3.4.7Κλεομένει δὲ οὐκ ὄντων ἀρρένων παίδων ἐς Λεωνίδαν τὸν Ἀναξανδρίδου, Δωριέως δὲ ἀπʼ ἀμφοτέρων ἀδελφόν, κατέβαινεν ἡ ἀρχή.
Since Cleomenes had no male children, the rule descended to Leonidas, the son of Anaxandrides, who was a brother of Dorieus from both parents.
καὶ Ξέρξης τε τηνικαῦτα ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἤγαγε τὸν λαὸν καὶ Λεωνίδας τριακοσίοις ὁμοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων ἀπήντησεν ἐς Θερμοπύλας.
At that time Xerxes led his host against Greece, and Leonidas went to meet him at Thermopylae with about three hundred Lacedaemonians.
γεγόνασι μὲν δὴ πόλεμοι καὶ Ἑλλήνων πολλοὶ καὶ ἐς ἀλλήλους βαρβάρων, εὐαρίθμητοι δὲ ὁπόσους ἀνδρὸς ἑνὸς μάλιστα ἀρετὴ προήγαγεν ἐς πλέον δόξης, ὡς Ἀχιλλεύς τε τὸν πρὸς Ἰλίῳ πόλεμον καὶ Μιλτιάδης τὸ Μαραθῶνι ἔργον.
Many wars indeed have occurred both among the Greeks and among the barbarians, but those which the virtue of one man especially advanced to greater glory are easily counted, as Achilles did the war at Ilium and Miltiades the deed at Marathon.
ἀλλὰ γὰρ τὸ Λεωνίδου κατόρθωμα ὑπερεβάλετο ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν τά τε ἀνὰ χρόνον συμβάντα καὶ τὰ ἔτι πρότερον.
Nevertheless, the success of Leonidas surpassed, in my opinion, both the things that happened in course of time and those of still earlier times.
§3.4.8Ξέρξῃ γὰρ βασιλέων, ὁπόσοι Μήδοις καὶ Πέρσαις ἐγένοντο ὕστερον, παρασχομένῳ μέγιστον φρόνημα καὶ ἀποδειξαμένῳ λαμπρὰ οὕτω, κατὰ τὴν πορείαν Λεωνίδας σὺν ὀλίγοις, οὓς ἠγάγετο ἐς Θερμοπύλας, ἐγένετο ἂν ἐμποδὼν μηδὲ ἀρχὴν τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἰδεῖν αὐτὸν μηδὲ Ἀθηναίων ποτὲ ἐμπρῆσαι τὴν πόλιν, εἰ μὴ κατὰ τὴν ἀτραπὸν τὴν διὰ τῆς Οἴτης τείνουσαν περιαγαγὼν τὴν μετὰ Ὑδάρνου στρατιὰν ὁ Τραχίνιος κυκλώσασθαί σφισι τοὺς Ἕλληνας παρέσχε καὶ οὕτω κατεργασθέντος Λεωνίδου παρῆλθον ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα οἱ βάρβαροι.
For to Xerxes, who among all the kings who afterwards ruled over the Medes and Persians possessed the greatest pride and displayed such brilliant resources, Leonidas on his march, with the few whom he led to Thermopylae, would have been an obstacle to prevent his ever seeing Greece at all or ever burning the city of the Athenians, had not the Trachinian, by leading the army under Hydarnes around by the path stretching through Oeta, enabled the barbarians to surround the Greeks; and Leonidas having been thus overcome, the barbarians passed into Greece.
§3.4.9Παυσανίας δὲ ὁ Κλεομβρότου βασιλεὺς μὲν οὐκ ἐγένετο· ἐπιτροπεύων γὰρ Πλείσταρχον τὸν Λεωνίδου καταλειφθέντα ἔτι παῖδα ἐς Πλάταιάν τε Λακεδαιμονίους ἤγαγε καὶ ὕστερον ναυσὶν ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον.
Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, did not become king; for as guardian of Pleistarchus, the son of Leonidas, who was left behind while still a child, he led the Lacedaemonians to Plataea and afterwards with ships to the Hellespont.
Παυσανίου δὲ τὸ ἔργον τὸ ἐς τὴν Κῴαν γυναῖκα ἐν ἐπαίνῳ τίθεμαι μάλιστα, ἥντινα ἀνδρὸς οὐκ ἀδόξου παρὰ Κῴοις θυγατέρα οὖσαν Ἡγητορίδου τοῦ Ἀνταγόρου Φαρανδάτης ὁ Τεάσπιδος, ἀνὴρ Πέρσης, παλλακὴν εἶχεν ἄκουσαν· §3.4.10ἐπεὶ δὲ Πλαταιᾶσι Μαρδόνιός τε ἔπεσεν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ καὶ ἀπώλοντο οἱ βάρβαροι, τὴν γυναῖκα ὁ Παυσανίας ἀπέστειλεν ἐς τὴν Κῶν κόσμον τε ὃν ἐποιήσατο ὁ Πέρσης αὐτῇ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀγομένην κατασκευήν.
But I hold in highest praise the deed of Pausanias toward the Coan woman, who, being the daughter of Hegetorides the son of Antagoras, a man of no small repute among the Coans, Pharandates the son of Teaspis, a Persian man, held as a concubine against her will; when Mardonius fell in the battle at Plataea and the barbarians perished, Pausanias sent the woman back to Cos with the adornments which the Persian had made for her and the rest of the baggage that was being carried with her.
Μαρδονίου τε οὐκ ἠθέλησεν ὁ Παυσανίας αἰσχῦναι τὸν νεκρὸν κατὰ τὴν παραίνεσιν τοῦ Αἰγινήτου Λάμπωνος.
Nor did Pausanias wish to outrage the corpse of Mardonius in accordance with the exhortation of Lampon the Aeginetan.