CCII. The Hellenes who awaited the Persians in that place were these: three hundred Spartan

armed men; one thousand from Tegea and Mantinea, half from each place; one hundred and twenty

from Orchomenus in Arcadia and one thousand from the rest of Arcadia; that many Arcadians, four

hundred from Corinth, two hundred from Phlius, and eighty Mycenaeans. These were the

Peloponnesians present; from Boeotia there were seven hundred Thespians and four hundred

Thebans.

Human being not a god.

invader of Hellas was not a god but a human

being, and there was not, and never would be, any mortal on whom some amount of evil was not

bestowed at birth, with the greatest men receiving the largest share.