Histories

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.