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I have named here the greatest of the nations which were marshalled by
Mardonius on this occasion, to wit, all those of most renown and
account. Mixed with these, however, were men of divers other
peoples, as Phrygians, Thracians, Mysians, Paeonians, and the
like; Ethiopians again, and Egyptians, both of the Hermotybian and
Calascirian races, whose weapon is the sword, and who are the only
fighting men in that country. These persons had formerly served on
board the fleet of Xerxes, but Mardonius disembarked them before he
left Phalerum; in the land force which Xerxes brought to Athens
there were no Egyptians. The number of the barbarians, as I have
already mentioned, was three hundred thousand; that of the Greeks who
had made alliance with Mardonius is known to none, for they were never
counted: I should guess that they mustered near fifty thousand
strong. The troops thus marshalled were all foot soldiers. As for
the horse, it was drawn up by itself.
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