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162 HISTORY OF GREECE. remarkable reality, and presented one among many other proofs of the lukewarmness and suspicious fidelity of the array.i Conformably to the suggestion of the Thebans, the liberties of Greece were now to be disputed in Boeotia : and not only had the position of Mardonius already been taken, but his camp also fortified, before the united Grecian array approached Kithaeron in its forward march from the Isthmus. After the full force of the Lacedaemonians had reached the Isthmus, they had to await the arrival of their Peloponnesian and other confederates. The hoplites who joined them were as follows : from Tegea, fifteen hundred ; from Corinth, five thousand, — besides a small body of three hundred from the Corinthian colony of Potidtea ; from the Arcadian Orchomenus, six hundred ; from Sikyon, three thou- sand ; from Epidaurus, eight hundred ; from Troezen, one thou- sand ; from Lepreon, two hundred ; from Mykense and Tiryns, four hundred ; from Phlius, one thousand ; from Hermione, three hundred ; from Eretria and Styra, six hundred ; from Chalkis, four hundred ; from Ambrakia, five hundred ; from Leukas and Anaktorium, eight hundred ; from Pale in Kephallenia, two hun- dred ; from -.Egina, five hundred. On marching from the Isthmus to Megara, they took up three thousand Megarian hoplites ; and as 'Oon as they reached Eleusis in their forward progress, the army was completed by the junction of eight thousand Athenian hoplites, and six hundred Platasan, under Aristeides, who passed over from Salamis.2 The total force of hoplites, or heavy-armed 1 OvK exu urpEKEUC e'ltteIv, ovte eI fjTi^ov [ikv iiTToMovTEC rove ^uKsac, ^etj-Qevtdv T(jv QEOffa/.iJv, etc. (Herodot. ix, 18.) This confession of uncertainty as to motives and plans, distingnishing between them and the visible facts which he is describing, is not without importance as strengthening our confidence in the historian. ^ Compare this list of Herodotus with the enumeration which Pausanias read inscribed on the statue of Zeus, erected at Olympia by the Greeks who took part in the battle of Plataea (Pausan. v, 23, 1). Pausanias found inscribed all the names here indicated by Herodotus except the Pales of Kephallenia : and he found in addition the Eleians Keans, Kythnians, Tenians, Naxians, and Melians. The five last nameg arc islanders in the ^gean : their contingents sent to Platasa must, at all events, have been very small, and it is surprising to hear that they sent any, especially M-hen we recollect that there was a Greek fleet at this moment