Histories

When this happened, seeing that their army was cut off from water and thrown into confusion by the horsemen, the generals of the Greeks went to Pausanias on the right wing, and debated concerning this and other matters; for there were other problems which troubled them more than what I have told. They had no food left, and their followers whom they had sent into the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese to bring provisions had been cut off by the horsemen and could not make their way to the army.

So they resolved in their council that if the Persians held off through that day from giving battle, they would go to the Island.[*](Several streams flow north or northwest from Cithaeron, and unite eventually form the small river Oeroe. Between two of these there is a long strip of land, which is perhaps the nh=sos; but it is not now actually surrounded by water, as Herodotus describes it.) This is ten furlongs distant from the Asopus and the Gargaphian spring, near which their army then lay, and in front of the town of Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea.

It is like an island on dry land because the river in its course down from Cithaeron into the plain is parted into two channels, and there is about three furlongs space in between till presently the two channels unite again, and the name of that river is Oeroe, who (as the people of the country say ) was the daughter of Asopus.