Histories

Next to the men of +Hermione [23.2583,37.3833] (Perseus) Hermione were six hundred Eretrians and Styreans; next to them, four hundred Chalcidians; next again, five hundred Ampraciots. After these stood eight hundred Leucadians and Anactorians, and next to them two hundred from Pale in Cephallenia;

after them in the array, five hundred Aeginetans; by them stood three thousand men of +Megara [23.35,38] (Perseus) Megara, and next to these six hundred Plataeans. At the end, and first in the line, were the Athenians who held the left wing. They were eight thousand in number, and their general was Aristides son of Lysimachus.

All these, except the seven appointed to attend each Spartan, were men-at-arms, and the whole sum of them was thirty-eight thousand and seven hundred. This was the number of men-at-arms that mustered for war against the barbarian; as regards the number of the light-armed men, there were in the Spartan array seven for each man-at-arms, that is, thirty-five thousand, and every one of these was equipped for war.

The light-armed from the rest of Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon and Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas were as one to every man-at-arms, and their number was thirty-four thousand and five hundred.

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.