The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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These menaces had so good ap effect, that five thousand men were privately despatched, each attended with seven Helotes, and were actually upon their march before the Spartans gave the Athenian deputies any answer. 15. Mardonius had left Attica at this time, and was on his re- turn to the country of Boeotia, where he resolved to, await the 80 THE HISTORY approach of (he enemy, as he could there difaw up his forces with greater ease than in the hillj parts of Attica, where a few might be opposed... to numbers with greater success. He encamp- ed by the river Asopos, along the banks of which his army ex- tended, consisting of three hundred thousand fighting men. 16. Great as this army was^the Greeks, with much inferior forces, resolved to meet it In the field. Their forces were by this time assembled, and amounted to seventy thousand men. Of these, five thousand were Spartans, attended by thirty-five thousand Helotes. The Athenians amounted to eight thousand, . and the troops of the allies made up the remainder.
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