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Such was the reply of the Athenians; and forthwith all the
Lacedaemonian troops cried out with one voice, that the Athenians
were worthier to have the left wing than the Arcadians. In this way
were the Tegeans overcome; and the post was assigned to the
Athenians.
When this matter had been arranged, the Greek army, which was in
part composed of those who came at the first, in part of such as had
flocked in from day to day, drew up in the following order: Ten
thousand Lacedaemonian troops held the right wing, five thousand of
whom were Spartans; and these five thousand were attended by a body of
thirty-five thousand Helots, who were only lightly armed - seven
Helots to each Spartan. The place next to themselves the Spartans
gave to the Tegeans, on account of their courage and of the esteem in
which they held them. They were all fully armed, and numbered fifteen
hundred men. Next in order came the Corinthians, five thousand
strong; and with them Pausanias had placed, at their request, the
band of three hundred which had come from Potidaea in Pallene. The
Arcadians of Orchomenus, in number six hundred, came next; then the
Sicyonians, three thousand; then the Epidaurians, eight hundred;
then the Troezenians, one thousand; then the Lepreats, two
hundred; the Mycenaeans and Tirynthians, four hundred; the
Phliasians, one thousand; the Hermionians, three hundred; the
Eretrians and Styreans, six hundred; the Chalcideans, four
hundred; and the Ambraciots, five hundred. After these came the
Leucadians and Anactorians, who numbered eight hundred; the Paleans
of Cephallenia, two hundred; the Eginetans, five hundred; the
Megarians, three thousand; and the Plataeans, six hundred. Last
of all, but first at their extremity of the line, were the
Athenians, who, to the number of eight thousand, occupied the left
wing, under the command of Aristides, the son of Lysimachus.
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