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Excerpt from Twenty Lives
At the northern end of Euboea is a promontory called Artemisium, near which the ¿eets had been engaged during the fighting at Thermopylae. Several favorable encounters, together with storms which Shattered many Persian Ships, had given the Greeks some prospect of success; but at the news of Thermopylae they lost heart, and retreating down the coast assembled in the bay of Salamis, near Athens, to await the onset of the Persians. Here, when the Greeks were wavering and half ready to retreat, Themistocles precipitated the battle by sending word to the barbarians that the Greeks were about to withdraw; and the vast ¿eet of the Per sians, crowded and entangled in the narrow waters of the bay, was routed by the skilful tactics of the small Greek navy. Xerxes went back to Persia, but left a force in Thessaly, under his general, Mardonius.
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