Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

For the present, then, the Athenians are angry with you since you have acted in a manner unworthy of you. Now they ask you to send with us an army with all speed, so that we may await the foreigner's onset in Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica; since we have lost Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia, in our own territory the most suitable place for a battle is the Thriasian plain.”