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[3] To this and to the first number I add the crews of the ships of fifty oars, calculating eighty men for each, whether there were actually more or fewer. Now seeing that, as has already been said,1 three thousand of these vessels were assembled, the number of men in them must have been two hundred and forty thousand.

1 In 97. But Herodotus' total of 3000 there is only partly composed of fifty-oared ships.

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