Histories

So they resolved in their council that if the Persians held off through that day from giving battle, they would go to the Island.[*](Several streams flow north or northwest from Cithaeron, and unite eventually form the small river Oeroe. Between two of these there is a long strip of land, which is perhaps the nh=sos; but it is not now actually surrounded by water, as Herodotus describes it.) This is ten furlongs distant from the Asopus and the Gargaphian spring, near which their army then lay, and in front of the town of Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea.