213. Then when the king was in a strait as to what he should do in the matter before him, Epialtes the son of Eurydemos, a Malian, came to speech with him, supposing that he would win a very great reward from the king; and this man told him of the path which leads over the mountain to Thermopylai, and brought about the destruction of those Hellenes who remained in that place. Afterwards from fear of the Lacedaemonians he fled to Thessaly, and when he had fled, a price was proclaimed for his life by the Deputies, 1181 when the Amphictyons met for their assembly at Pylai. 1182 Then some time afterwards having returned to Antikyra he was slain by Athenades a man of Trachis. Now this Athenades killed Epialtes for another cause, which I shall set forth in the following part of the history, 1183 but he was honoured for it none the less by the Lacedaemonians. 214.