Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

As regards the land army supplied by all the nations—Thracians, Paeonians, Eordi, Bottiaei, Chalcidians, Brygi, Pierians, Macedonians, Perrhaebi, Enienes, Dolopes, Magnesians, Achaeans, dwellers on the coast of Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace—of all these I suppose the number to have been three hundred thousand.

When these numbers are added to the numbers from Asia (continent)Asia, the sum total of fighting men is two million, six hundred and forty-one thousand, six hundred and ten.