107.
[274] The sun and moon.
[275] In his attack upon Herodotus, Plutarch asserts that the Spartans did make numerous military excursions at the beginning of the month; if this be true, so far from excusing the Spartans, it only corroborates the natural suspicion that they acted in accordance, not with superstition, but with their usual calculating and selfish policy -- ever as slow to act in the defence of other states as prompt to assert the independence of their own.
[276] Paus., l.

8, c.

5.
[277] The exact number of the Athenians is certainly doubtful.
Herodotus does not specify it.

Justin estimates the number of citizens at ten thousand, besides a thousand Plataeans: Nepos at ten thousand in all; Pausanias at nine thousand.

But this total, furnished by authorities so equivocal, seems incredibly small.