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Excerpt from The Topography of Athens, and the Demi, Vol. 2: The Demi of Attica In my Opinion, says Herodotus the Persians, when they entered Attica, were not less numerous either by land or sea, than when they arrived at Thermopylae and Sepias; for against the men who had perished in the storms at sea, and in the battles at Thermopylae and Artemisium, I will place those who had not yet followed the king; namely, the Melieusos, the Dorians, the Locri, and the Boeotians; the last of whom joined him with all their forces, except those belonging to Thespise and Plataea. He was reinforced also by the Carystii, the Andrii and Tenii, as well as by all the islanders except those of the five cities which I have already mentioned. The Patii, however, awaited at Cythnus the event of the war; all the others joined Xerxes at Phale rum; and thus the farther be advanced in Greece, the more numerous his armament became. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.