and the most famous victory of all those about which we have knowledge was gained by Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides; of his ancestors above this the names have been given for Leonidas, 1397 since, as it happens, they are the same for both. Now Mardonios was slain by Arimnestos, 1398 a man of consideration in Sparta, who afterwards, when the Median wars were over, with three hundred men fought a battle against the whole army of the Messenians, then at war with the Lacedaemonians, at Stenycleros, and both he was slain and also the three hundred. 65. When the Persians were turned to flight at Plataia by the Lacedaemonians, they fled in disorder to their own camp and to the palisade which they had made in the Theban territory: 1399