Διεξιφίσω
you fought to the death
Translated by Meredith Grau28 Jun 2004Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] you fought it out for the territory. Battling against the Medes at Marathon, you used swords against them. Marathon [is] a place of Attica, at which Datis and Artabazos1 the Median satraps landed, having been sent by King Darius to enslave Greece. There, with Miltiades as general, the Athenians attacked them -- only the Plataeans, with a thousand men, had come to be his allies, meaning that the number of the Greek forces of the Persian had been increased;2 and they were responsible for the freedom of the Greeks -- they alone from all of the Greeks destroying the first of the Persians.