Histories

So the total of all the light-armed men who were fighters was sixty-nine thousand and five hundred, and of the whole Greek army mustered at Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea, men-at-arms and light-armed fighting men together, eleven times ten thousand less eighteen hundred. The Thespians who were present were one hundred and ten thousand in number, for the survivors[*](That is, who had not fallen at +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae.) of the Thespians were also present with the army, eighteen hundred in number. These then were arrayed and encamped by the Asopus.

When Mardonius' barbarians had finished their mourning for Masistius and heard that the Greeks were at Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea, they also came to the part of the Asopus river nearest to them. When they were there, they were arrayed for battle by Mardonius as I shall show. He posted the Persians facing the Lacedaemonians.

Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the Lacedaemonians, they were arrayed in deeper ranks and their line ran opposite the Tegeans also. In his arraying of them he chose out the strongest part of the Persians to set it over against the Lacedaemonians, and posted the weaker by them facing the Tegeans; this he did being so informed and taught by the Thebans.

Next to the Persians he posted the Medes opposite the men of Corinth [22.9083,37.9083] (Perseus) Corinth, +Potidaea (deserted settlement), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Potidaea, Orkhomenos (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeOrchomenus, and Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon; next to the Medes, the Bactrians, opposite the men of Epidauros [23.0917,37.6] (Perseus)Epidaurus, Troizen [23.375,37.5] (Perseus)Troezen, Lepreum, +Tiryns [22.8167,37.6] (Perseus) Tiryns, +Mycenae [22.7583,37.725] (Perseus) Mycenae, and Phlius.

After the Bactrians he set the Indians, opposite the men of +Hermione [23.2583,37.3833] (Perseus) Hermione and +Eretria [23.8083,38.3917] (Perseus) Eretria and +Styra [24.2167,38.1833] (Perseus) Styra and +Chalcis [23.6083,38.4667] (Perseus) Chalcis. Next to the Indians he posted the Sacae, opposite the Ampraciots, Anactorians, Leucadians, Paleans, and Aeginetans;

next to the Sacae, and opposite the Athenians, Plataeans, Megarians, the Boeotians, Locrians, Malians, Thessalians, and the thousand that came from +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis; for not all the Phocians took the Persian side, but some of them gave their aid to the Greek cause; these had been besieged on +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus, and issued out from there to harry Mardonius' army and the Greeks who were with him. Beside these, he arrayed the Macedonians also and those who lived in the area of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly opposite the Athenians.

These which I have named were the greatest of the nations set in array by Mardonius, but there was also in the army a mixture of Phrygians, Thracians, Mysians, Paeonians, and the rest, besides Ethiopians and the Egyptian swordsmen called Hermotybies and Calasiries,[*](The Egyptian military classes mentioned in Hdt. 2.164.) who are the only fighting men in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt.