and this Tellias contrived for them a device of the following kind:-he took six hundred men, the best of the Phokians, and whitened them over with chalk, both themselves and their armour, and then he attacked the Thessalians by night, telling the Phokians beforehand to slay every man whom they should see not coloured over with white.
Phozearrak, eta euren artean Elideko Telias aztia, Parnason inguraturik zituztela, Telias hark honako amarru honen bidez salbatu zituen: