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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.

The forces of sea and land added together would consist of two million, three hundred and seventeen thousand, six hundred and ten men. So far I have spoken of the force which came from Asia (continent)Asia itself, without the train of servants which followed it and the companies of the grain-bearing craft.

I must, however, also take into account the force brought from Europe (continent)Europe, and I will rely on my best judgment in doing so. The Greeks of Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace and the islands off Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace furnished one hundred and twenty ships, and the companies of these ships must then have consisted of twenty-four thousand men.