for Mardonios thought both that it was well for him to escort the king on his way, and also that it was now too late in the year to carry on the war; it was better, he thought, to winter in Thessaly and then at the beginning of spring to attempt the Peloponnese.
Hortaz, Mardoniok ere egoki iritzi zion monarkari laguntzea, eta, gainera, urtesasoi hura operazio militarretarako desegokia zela kontuan hartuz, hobe zelako negua Thesalian igarotzea eta geroago joatea-hurrengo udaberrian-Peloponesoren aurka.