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Such then being the number of the fighting men, it is my belief that
the attendants who followed the camp, together with the crews of the
corn-barks, and of the other craft accompanying the army, made up an
amount rather above than below that of the fighting men. However I
will not reckon them as either fewer or more, but take them at an equal
number. We have therefore to add to the sum already reached an exactly
equal amount. This will give 5,283,220 as the whole number of
men brought by Xerxes, the son of Darius, as far as Sepias and Thermopylae.
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