Battle of Plataea
Mardonius ( "Mardonios", Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹, "Marduniya", literally: "the mild one"; died 479 BC) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea. The Indo-European root "mild" is found in the gaulic tribe name MELDI "the mild ones" and in Slavic (Russian MOLODOi = young).