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I cannot give the exact number that each part contributed to the total, for there is no one who tells us that; but the total of the whole land army was shown to be one million and seven hundred thousand.
I cannot give the exact number that each part contributed to the total, for there is no one who tells us that; but the total of the whole land army was shown to be one million and seven hundred thousand.
[2] They were counted in this way: ten thousand men were collected in one place, and when they were packed together as closely as could be a line was drawn around them; when this was drawn, the ten thousand were sent away and a wall of stones was built on the line reaching up to a man's navel;
[3] when this was done, others were brought into the walled space, until in this way all were numbered. When they had been numbered, they were marshalled by nations.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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