[637] Thucyd. ii, 65.
[638] Plutarch, Aristeidês, c. 7.
[639] Plutarch, Aristeidês, c. 5.
[640] Herodot. vi, 109, 110.
[641] Mr. Kinneir remarks that the Persian Cassids, or foot-messengers, will travel for several days successively at the rate of sixty or seventy miles a day (Geographical Memoir of Persia, p. 44).
[642] Herodot. ix, 7-10.
[643] Herodot. vi, 110.
[644] Herodot. vi, 108-112.
[645] Thucyd. iii, 55.
[646] Justin states ten thousand Athenians, besides one thousand Platæans. Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias, and Plutarch give ten thousand as the sum total of both. Justin, ii, 9; Corn. Nep. Miltiad. c. 4; Pausan. iv, 25, 5; x, 20, 2: compare also Suidas, v. Ἱππίας.