[36] Let it be remembered, to the honour of Greece, that on this occasion the Greeks, whose number only amounted to one hundred and ten thousand, were opposed by fifty thousand of their treacherous countrymen.[c]
| Of the Spartans there were | 5,000 |
| Seven helots to each Spartan | 35,000 |
| Lacedæmonians | 5,000 |
| A light-armed soldier to each Lacedæmonian | 5,000 |
| Tegeatæ | 1,500 |
| Light-armed Tegeatæ | 1,500 |
| Total | 53,000[c] |
[38] The Greeks, according to Plutarch, lost in all 1360 men: all those who were slain of the Athenians were of one particular tribe. Plutarch is much incensed at Herodotus for his account of this battle; but the authority of our historian seems entitled to most credit.[c] [Bury, however, thinks he gave the Athenians too large a share in the victory.]
[39] Pausanias altered materially afterwards. He aspired to the supreme power, became magnificent and luxurious, fierce and vindictive.[e]
[40] [Bury declares it to have been a few days later.]
[41] It is unnecessary to remark, that the superstition of Herodotus is in this passage conspicuous. Diodorus Siculus is most sagacious, when he says that Leotychides, and those who were with him, knew nothing of the victory of Platæa; but that they contrived this stratagem to animate their troops. Polyænus relates the same in his Stratagemata.[e] “These things which happen by divine interposition,” says Herodotus, “are made known by various means.”
Winged Victory
(From a Greek Statuette now in the British Museum)