It was decided to give battle.

Each general commanded in turn his single day.

When it came to the turn of Aristides, he gave up his right to Miltiades, showing his colleagues that it was no disgrace to submit to the profound experience of another.

The example once set was universally followed, and Miltiades was thus left in absolute and undivided command.

But that able and keen-sighted chief, fearing perhaps that if he took from another his day of command, jealousy might damp the ardour of the general thus deprived, and, as it were, degraded, waited till his own appointed day before he commenced the attack.
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