Histories

the first to enter were the Tegeans, and it was they who plundered the tent of Mardonius, taking from it besides everything else the feeding trough of his horses which was all of bronze and a thing well worth looking at. The Tegeans dedicated this feeding trough of Mardonius in the temple of Athena Alea. Everything else which they took they brought into the common pool, as did the rest of the Greeks.

As for the barbarians, they did not form a unified body again once the wall was down, nor did anyone think of defense because the terrified men in the tiny space and the many myriads herded together were in great distress.

Such a slaughter were the Greeks able to make, that of two hundred and sixty thousand who remained after Artabazus had fled with his forty thousand, scarcely three thousand were left alive. Of the Lacedaemonians from Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta ninety-one all together were killed in battle; of the Tegeans, seventeen and of the Athenians, fifty-two.[*](These figures must refer to the o(pli=tai alone, leaving out of account the Laconian peri/oikoi and the rest of the light-armed troops. Plutarch says that 60,300 Greeks fell at Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea.)