Histories

Herodotus

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

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.