§5.1Hoc in tempore nulla civitas Atheniensibus auxilio fuit praeter Plataeenses.
At this time, no state was of assistance to the Athenians except the Plataeans.
ea mille misit militum.
This state sent a thousand soldiers.
itaque horum adventu decem milia armatorum completa sunt, quae manus mirabili flagrabat pugnandi cupiditate.
Thus, by their arrival, a force of ten thousand armed men was completed, which band was burning with a wonderful desire for fighting.
§5.2quo factum est ut plus quam collegae Miltiades valeret.
Because of this, it came about that Miltiades had more influence than his colleagues.
eius ergo auctoritate impulsi Athenienses copias ex urbe eduxerunt locoque idoneo castra fecerunt.
Driven therefore by his authority, the Athenians led their forces out of the city and pitched camp in a suitable place.
§5.3dein postero die sub montis radicibus acie regione instructa non apertissima (namque arbores multis locis erant rarae) proelium commiserunt hoc consilio, ut et montium altitudine tegerentur et arborum tractu equitatus hostium impediretur.
Then on the following day, having drawn up their battle line at the foot of the mountain in a terrain that was not very open (for in many places trees were scattered), they joined battle with this design, that they might be protected by the height of the mountains and that the cavalry of the enemy might be hindered by the tract of trees.
§5.4Datis etsi non aequum locum videbat suis, tamen fretus numero copiarum suarum confligere cupiebat, eoque magis, quod, priusquam Lacedaemonii subsidio venirent, dimicare utile arbitrabatur.
Datis, although he saw that the position was not favorable for his men, yet relying on the number of his forces, was eager to engage, and all the more so because he thought it advantageous to fight before the Lacedaemonians should arrive as reinforcement.
itaque in aciem peditum centum, equitum decem milia produxit proeliumque commisit.
Therefore, he led out into the battle line a hundred thousand infantry and ten thousand cavalry, and joined battle.
§5.5in quo tanto plus virtute valuerunt Athenienses, ut decemplicem numerum hostium profligarint, adeoque eos perterruerunt, ut Persae non castra, sed naves petierint.
In which battle the Athenians prevailed so much more by their valor that they routed a force of the enemy ten times their own number, and they threw them into such a panic that the Persians sought not their camp, but their ships.
qua pugna nihil adhuc exstitit nobilius: nulla enim umquam tam exigua manus tantas opes prostravit.
Than this battle, nothing has ever arisen more famous; for no such small band ever overthrew so great power.