but when the eleventh day had come, while they still sat opposite to one another at Plataia, the Hellenes having by this time grown much more numerous and Mardonios being greatly vexed at the delay of action, then Mardonios the son of Gobryas and Artabazos the son of Pharnakes, who was esteemed by Xerxes as few of the Persians were besides, came to speech with one another;
baina alderdi biak Platean aurrez aurre lerrokatu zirenetik hamaikagarren egunean, armada heleniarra kopuruz haziz zihoanez eta Mardonio urduri baino urduriago zegoenez geldi egote hartaz, hizketaldi bat izan zuten Mardoniok berak (Gobryasen semeak) eta Artabazok (Pharnazesen semeak), Xerxesek ezein gutxi bezala estimatzen zuena azken hau.