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εὕροντο, ‘gained the favour.’ Potidaea (cf. vii. 123. 1; viii. 127 f.) was a colony of Corinth (Thuc. i. 56). E. Meyer (iii. 235 n.) holds that it is unlikely that any Potidaeans fought at Plataea, and that H. put them in erroneously because he found their name on the memorial at Delphi (ch. 81 n.), while Beloch (l. c.) would derive the whole list of names from the same source. Both views seem unlikely; cf. ch. 81 n. Obst (Der Feldzug des Xerxes, pp. 62-6) accepts the numbers given by Herodotus for the contingents of hoplites, and argues for the presence of the Paleans and Potidaeans at Plataea, which Munro (C. A. H. iv. 323) now doubts.

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