A general of [the] Athenians. This man urged Darius to march against the Athenians and Greece, with Intaphernes and Datis as satraps and three hundred thousand soldiers, and he himself returned home with them, though he was already an old man. And they arrived and made a sweep through Eretria and sent those who had been captured to the king. He settled them near Sousa, and there is an epigram about them by Plato: "we are the Eretrian race of Euboeans; we lie near Sousa, alas! a land so far from our own."[1] They came thence to Marathon. [The] Athenians were under the command of Miltiades the son of Cimon and made war against the barbarians. They also called the Lacedaemonians to battle through Philippides the day-runner, who made one thousand five hundred stades in one night.[2] And because the custom did not permit them to go to war before the full moon, they declined. Pan met up with Philippides as he was going back across the Parthenion mountain in Arcadia and faulted the Athenians, by whom he alone of all the gods was neglected, and promised to support them in battle. After one man had advised -- for they were ten[3] -- waiting for the Lacedaemonians, but with Miltiades and then Callimachus recommending that they go forth, the Athenians went out, themselves being nine thousand and having one thousand Plataeans [in support]. And they say they won that same day. Among these Callimachus [was found] standing as a corpse [propped up] on spears,[4] and Polyzelus, after being blinded when he saw a phantom shading his shield with its beard (they suppose him to be Pan as ally), fought as if he could see, and distinguished the enemy and his own side by voice.[5]