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soil of Thespis, the Lord of Persia . When she heard
of the total defeat of the Persians , and of the vi6tory of
the Greeks, she arrived in a Car, all glittering with gold,
as were her servants, and dressed in her most sumptuous
apparel, she alighted and went to the quarters of the Lace-
demonians, who were occupied with carnage. She distin-
guished Pausanias by the orders he was giving, and as she
had often heard him spoken of, she had been long acquainted
with his name and country . She approached him , and
embracing his knees, she laid : King of Sparta, deliver an
humble suppliant from slavery , and one whom you have
already obliged by exterminating Barbarians, who neither
respest the God nor the Genii: I am of the Island of Cos,
and the Daughter of Hegetorides, son of Antagoras. A Per-
sian having carried me off, has detained me. Woman, answer
ed Pausanias, have considence in me, first, as a suppliant,
and , secondly, if you tell the truth, as being the Daugh-
ter of Hegetorides of Cos, the principal hosi: that I have
in that Island . Having thus said, he gave her in charge
to such of the Ephori who were present, and asterwards
sent her to JEgina, where she wished to go.
In the same {a\ Herodotus speaks nearly as follows of
the anchor on the shield of Sophanes. „ It is reported that
„ Sophanes of Decelea carried an iron anchor with a brasi
„ chain tied to the belt of his cuirass, which as often as
„ he approached the Enemy, he cast on the ground, that
they might not movq him from the spot, and, that when
„ they ssed, he took it up, and pursued them. Howe-
,, ver, this story is' contradi&ed by an other, which says,
„ that he did not cary a real iron anchor at the belt of
„his
(a) Book cap. 73.