Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

which, by their interpretation, was the wooden wall. But others supposed that the god was referring to their ships, and they were for doing nothing but equipping these. Those who believed their ships to be the wooden wall were disabled by the two last verses of the oracle:

  1. Divine Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis, you will bring death to women's sons
  2. When the corn is scattered, or the harvest gathered in.

These verses confounded the opinion of those who said that their ships were the wooden wall, for the readers of oracles took the verses to mean that they should offer battle by sea near Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis and be there overthrown.