From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians..., the Corinthians..., the Sikyonians..., the Epidaurians..., the Troiezenians... All these (groups)... belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis.

Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon That we who lie here obeyed their commands.

'It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.'

Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun…