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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, 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 survivors1 of the Thespians were also present with the army, eighteen hundred in number. These then were arrayed and encamped by the Asopus.

1 That is, who had not fallen at Thermopylae.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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