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μοῦνοι δή: very emphatic (cf. viii. 124. 3 n.). This insistence that the Athenians won Marathon by themselves ungratefully forgets the help of the Plataeans (cf. vii. 10. β 1). Attic orators follow the example of their advocate here; cf. Plato, Menex. 240 C; Laws 698 E; Isocr. Panegyr. § 86. 99; Ps.-Lysias, §§ 20-6; especially μόνοι ὑπὲρ ἁπάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος πρὸς πολλὰς μυριάδας τῶν βαρβάρων.

The forty-six nations answer to the number of those who served on foot in the host of Xerxes (vii. 61-80). The assumption that they all fought at Marathon is purely gratuitous.

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