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for Bacis' oracle concerning this matter runs as follows

1. When a strange-tongued man casts a yoke of papyrus on the waves,
2. Then take care to keep bleating goats far from the coasts of +Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea

While the Greeks were doing as I have said, there came to them their lookout from +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis. There was a scout at +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, one Polyas, a native of Anticyra, who was charged (and had a rowing boat standing ready for it), if the fleet should suffer a reverse to declare it to the men at +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae. Similarly, if any ill should befall the land army, Abronichus son of Lysicles, an Athenian, was with Leonidas, ready for his part to bring the news in a thirty-oared bark to the Greeks at +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium.

So this Abronichus came and declared to them the fate of Leonidas and his army. When the Greeks learned this, they no longer delayed their departure but went their ways in their appointed order, the Corinthians first and last of all the Athenians.