Histories

King Xerxes lay encamped in +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis in Malis and the Hellenes in the pass.[*](In the space between the eastern and western narrow e)/sodoi.) This place is called +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae by most of the Hellenes, but by the natives and their neighbors Pylae.[*](“the Gates”, since it served as the entrance into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece from the north. +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae means “the Hot Gates”, from the warm springs there.) Each lay encamped in these places. Xerxes was master of everything to the north[*](West, properly speaking; “southward” below should be “eastward.”) from +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis, and the Hellenes of all that lay toward the south on the mainland.[*](That is, Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece.)

The Hellenes who awaited the Persians in that place were these: three hundred Spartan armed men; one thousand from Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea and +Mantinea [22.3833,37.6167] (Perseus) Mantinea, half from each place; one hundred and twenty from Kalpali [22.3,37.716] (inhabited place), Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Orchomenus in +Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia and one thousand from the rest of +Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia; that many Arcadians, four hundred from Corinth [22.9083,37.9083] (Perseus) Corinth, two hundred from Phlius, and eighty Mycenaeans. These were the Peloponnesians present; from Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia there were seven hundred Thespians and four hundred Thebans.