Note 27 — Chapter XIX · THERMOPYLÆ
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[Plutarch upbraids Herodotus for thus slandering the Thebans; and Diodorus says, that Thebes was divided into two parties, one of which sent four hundred men to Thermopylæ.c] [Buryd thinks it is certain that this tale was invented in the light of Thebes’ later Median policy.]