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war; after him Cleocritus of Corinth rising up, made people think he would ask the palm for the Corinthians, (for next to Sparta and Athens, Corinth was in greatest estimation) ; but he delivered his opinion, to the general admiration, in favor of the Plataeans ; and counselled to take away all contention by giving them the reward and glory of the victory, whose being honored could be dis- tasteful to neither party. This being said, first Aristides gave consent in the name of the Athenians, and Pausa- nias, then, for the Lacediemonians. So, being reconciled, they set apart eighty talents for the Platfeans, with which they built the temple and dedicated the image to Minerva, and adorned the temple with pictures, which even to this very day retain their lustre. But the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, each erected a trophy apart by themselves. On their consulting the oracle about offering sacrifice, Apollo answered, that they should dedicate an altar to Ju- piter of freedom, but should not sacrifice till they had extin- guished the fires throughout the country, as having been de- filed by the barbarians, and had kindled unpolluted fire at the common altar at Delphi. The magistrates of Greece, therefore, went forthwith and compelled such as had fire to put it out ; and Euchidas, a Plataean, promising to fetch fire, with all possible speed, from the altar of the god, went to Delphi, and having sprinkled and purified his body, crowned himself with laurel ; and taking the fire from the altar ran back to Plataea, and got back there before sunset, performing in one day a journey of a thou- sand furlongs ; and saluting his fellow-citizens and deliver- ing them the fire, he immediately fell down, and in a short time after expired. But the Plataeans, taking him up, interred him in the temple of Diana Euclia, setting this inscription over him : " Euchidas ran to Delphi and back again in one day." Most people believe that Euclia is Diana, and call her by that name. But some say she