Kitap 7
212.1
It is said that during these assaults in the battle the king, as he watched, jumped up three times from the throne in fear for his army. This, then, is how the fighting progressed, and on the next day the barbarians fought no better. They joined battle supposing that their enemies, being so few, were now disabled by wounds and could no longer resist.
212.2
The Hellenes, however, stood ordered in ranks by nation, and each of them fought in turn, except the Phocians, who were posted on the mountain to guard the path.For which see below, Hdt. 7.215, 216. When the Persians found nothing different from what they saw the day before, they withdrew.
213.1
The king was at a loss as to how to deal with the present difficulty. Epialtes son of Eurydemus, a Malian, thinking he would get a great reward from the king, came to speak with him and told him of the path leading over the mountain to +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae. In so doing he caused the destruction of the Hellenes remaining there.
213.2
Later he fled into +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly in fear of the Lacedaemonians, and while he was in exile, a price was put on his head by the Pylagori Cp. Hdt. 7.200 (note). when the Amphictyons assembled at Pylae. Still later he returned from exile to Anticyra and was killed by Athenades, a Trachinian.
213.3
Athenades slew Epialtes for a different reason, which I will tell later in my history,The expression suggests Herodotus' intention of continuing his history beyond 479, the year with which Book IX ends; but see How-Wells ad loc. but he was given no less honor by the Lacedaemonians. It was in this way, then, that Epialtes was later killed.
214.1
There is another story told, namely that Onetes son of Phanagoras, a Carystian, and Corydallus of Anticyra are the ones who gave the king this information and guided the Persians around the mountain, but I find it totally incredible.
