loss between the conquerors and the conquered.]

The Athenian slain were buried on the field of battle. This was
contrary to the usual custom, according to which the bones of all
who fell fighting for their country in each year were deposited
in a public sepulchre in the suburb of Athens called the
Cerameicus. But it was felt that a distinction ought to be made
in the funeral honours paid to the men of Marathon, even as their
merit had been distinguished over that of all other Athenians. A
lofty mound was raised on the plain of Marathon, beneath which
the remains of the men of Athens who fell in the battle were
deposited. Ten columns were erected on the spot, one for each of
the Athenian tribes; and on the monumental column of each tribe
were graven the names of those of its members whose glory it was
to have fallen in the great battle of liberation. The antiquary
Pausanias read those names there six hundred years after the time
when they were first graven. The columns have long perished, but
the mound still marks the spot where the noblest heroes of
antiquity, the MARATHONOMAKHOI repose. [Pausanias states, with
implicit belief, that the battlefield was haunted at night by
supernatural beings, and that the noise of combatants and the
snorting of horses were heard to resound on it. The superstition
has survived the change of creeds, and the shepherds of the
neighbourhood still believe that spectral warriors contend on the
plain at midnight, and they say that they have heard the shouts
of the combatants and the neighing of the steeds. See Grote and
Thirlwall.]

A separate tumulus was raised over the bodies of the slain
Plataeans, and another over the light-armed slaves who had taken