Histories

[*](200 was the usual complement for a Greek trireme—170 rowers, 30 fighters.)On board all these ships were thirty fighting men of the Persians and Medes and Sacae in addition to the company which each had of native fighters; the number of this added contingent is thirty-six thousand, two hundred and ten.

To this and to the first number I add the crews of the ships of fifty oars, calculating eighty men for each, whether there were actually more or fewer. Now seeing that, as has already been said,[*](In 97. But Herodotus' total of 3000 there is only partly composed of fifty-oared ships.) three thousand of these vessels were assembled, the number of men in them must have been two hundred and forty thousand.

These, then, were the ships' companies from Asia (continent)Asia, and the total number of them was five hundred and seventeen thousand, six hundred and ten. There were seven hundred thousand and one hundred footsoldiers and eighty thousand cavalrymen; to these I add the Arabian camel-riders and Libyan charioteers, estimating them to have been twenty thousand in number.