HERODOTUS

BOOK IX. 31-33he arrayed against the Athenians Macedonians alsoand the dwellers about Thessaly.32. These that I have named were the greatest ofthe nations set in array by Mardonius that were ofmost note and account ; but there was also in thearmy a mixed multitude of Phrygians, Thracians,Mysians, Paeonians, and the rest, besides Ethiopiansand the Egyptian swordsmen called Hermotybiesand Calasiries,1who are the only fighting men inEgypt. These had been fighters on shipboard,tillMardonius while yet at Phalerum disembarked themfrom their ships for the Egyptians were not;appointed to serve in the land army which Xerxesled to Athens. Of the foreigners, then, there werethree hundred thousand, as I have already shown ;as for the Greek allies of Mardonius, none knows thenumber of them, for they were not counted ;but as faras guessing may serve, I suppose them to have beenmustered to the number of fifty thousand. Thesewere the footmen that were set in array ;the cavalrywere separately ordered.33. When they had all been arrayed in their nationsand their battalions, on the second day thereafterboth armies offered sacrifice. For the Greeks, Tisamenusit was that sacrificed ;for he was with theirarmy as a diviner ;he was an Elean by birth, aClytiad of the lamid clan, 2 and the Lacedaemoniansgave him the freedom of their city. For whenTisamenus was inquiring of the oracle at Delphiconcerning issue, the priestess prophesied to himthat he should win five great victories. Not underwhichwere found in all parts of Hellas. The Clytiadaewere also Elean priests, but quite separate from thelamidae ;so Stein isprobably right in bracketing K.\vTid8r)v.199