Kitap 9
30.1
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 survivorsThat 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.
31.1
When Mardonius' barbarians had finished their mourning for Masistius and heard that the Greeks were at Plataea [23.2667,38.2] (Perseus) Plataea, they also came to the part of the Asopus river nearest to them. When they were there, they were arrayed for battle by Mardonius as I shall show. He posted the Persians facing the Lacedaemonians.
31.2
Seeing that the Persians by far outnumbered the Lacedaemonians, they were arrayed in deeper ranks and their line ran opposite the Tegeans also. In his arraying of them he chose out the strongest part of the Persians to set it over against the Lacedaemonians, and posted the weaker by them facing the Tegeans; this he did being so informed and taught by the Thebans.
