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All these, except the Helots - seven of whom, as I said, attended
each Spartan - were heavy-armed troops; and they amounted to
thirty-eight thousand seven hundred men. This was the number of
Hoplites, or heavy-armed soldiers, which was together against the
barbarian. The light-armed troops consisted of the thirty-five
thousand ranged with the Spartans, seven in attendance upon each, who
were all well equipped for war; and of thirty-four thousand five
hundred others, belonging to the Lacedaemonians and the rest of the
Greeks, at the rate (nearly) of one light to one heavy armed. Thus
the entire number of the light-armed was sixty-nine thousand five hundred.
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