The Revolt of Sparta

A Megarian man named Pythion saved the troops from Pegi through Boisha to Athens. These forces were guided to safety by a Megarian man called Pythion. The stone has survived, and the verses written upon it are strong reminiscence of this moment of great peril for Athens. And so, the combined Athenian army then marched to meet the Peloponnesian army which was ravaging the Attic countryside near a lusus. However, when the two armies met and faced each other in the Theresian plain, and battle was about to happen, all of a sudden a delegation came out from the Spartan army. Pericles went out to meet them,.