Histories

Next to the Persians he posted the Medes opposite the men of Corinth [22.9083,37.9083] (Perseus) Corinth, +Potidaea (deserted settlement), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Potidaea, Orkhomenos (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeOrchomenus, and Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon; next to the Medes, the Bactrians, opposite the men of Epidauros [23.0917,37.6] (Perseus)Epidaurus, Troizen [23.375,37.5] (Perseus)Troezen, Lepreum, +Tiryns [22.8167,37.6] (Perseus) Tiryns, +Mycenae [22.7583,37.725] (Perseus) Mycenae, and Phlius.

After the Bactrians he set the Indians, opposite the men of +Hermione [23.2583,37.3833] (Perseus) Hermione and +Eretria [23.8083,38.3917] (Perseus) Eretria and +Styra [24.2167,38.1833] (Perseus) Styra and +Chalcis [23.6083,38.4667] (Perseus) Chalcis. Next to the Indians he posted the Sacae, opposite the Ampraciots, Anactorians, Leucadians, Paleans, and Aeginetans;

next to the Sacae, and opposite the Athenians, Plataeans, Megarians, the Boeotians, Locrians, Malians, Thessalians, and the thousand that came from +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis; for not all the Phocians took the Persian side, but some of them gave their aid to the Greek cause; these had been besieged on +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus, and issued out from there to harry Mardonius' army and the Greeks who were with him. Beside these, he arrayed the Macedonians also and those who lived in the area of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly opposite the Athenians.

These which I have named were the greatest of the nations set in array by Mardonius, but there was also in the army a mixture of Phrygians, Thracians, Mysians, Paeonians, and the rest, besides Ethiopians and the Egyptian swordsmen called Hermotybies and Calasiries,[*](The Egyptian military classes mentioned in Hdt. 2.164.) who are the only fighting men in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt.

These had been fighters on shipboard, till Mardonius while yet at Phalerum disembarked them from their ships; for the Egyptians were not appointed to serve in the land army which Xerxes led to Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens. Of the barbarians, then, there were three hundred thousand, as I have already shown. As for the Greek allies of Mardonius, no one knows the number of them (for they were not counted), I suppose them to have been mustered to the number of fifty thousand. These were the footmen that were set in array; the cavalry were separately ordered.