noon
The light had grown and the sun was coming up over Pelion . The first beam fell on the eastern ridge of Kallidromos , and there , clear on the sky-line , was the proof . The Persian was making a wide circuit , but moving shoreward . In a little he would be at the coast , and by noon at the Hellenes ' rear . His hearers doubted no more . Atta was hurried forward through the lines of the Greeks to the narrow throat of the pass , where behind a rough rampart of stones lay the Lacedaemonian headquarters . He was still giddy from the heights , and it was in a giddy dream that he traversed the misty shingles of the beach amid ranks of sleeping warriors .