Histories

Presently they resolved that they would march down to Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea, for they saw that the ground there was generally more suited for encampment than that at Erythrae, and chiefly because it was better watered. It was to this place and to the Gargaphian spring which was there, that they resolved to go and pitch camp in their several battalions;

They took up their arms and marched along the lower slopes of Cithaeron past Hysiae to the lands of Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea, and when they arrived, they arrayed themselves nation by nation near the Gargaphian spring and the precinct of the hero Androcrates, among low hills and in a level country.