Histories

With this design they put to sea. So when they came past the temple of the Goddesses[*](Demeter and Persephone.) at Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale to the Gaeson and Scolopois,[*](The Gaeson was probably a stream running south of the hill called Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale; Scolopois, a place on its east bank (How and Wells).) where there is a temple of Eleusinian Demeter (which was built by Philistus son of Pasicles when he went with Nileus son of Codrus to the founding of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus), they beached their ships and fenced them round with stones and the trunks of orchard trees which they cut down; they drove in stakes around the fence and prepared for siege or victory, making ready, after consideration, for either event.

When the Greeks learned that the barbarians had gone off to the mainland, they were not all pleased that their enemy had escaped them, and did not know whether to return back or set sail for the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont. At last they resolved that they would do neither, but sail to the mainland.

Equipping themselves for this with gangways and everything else necessary for a sea-fight, they held their course for Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale. When they approached the camp, no one put out to meet them. Seeing the ships beached within the wall and a great host of men drawn up in array along the strand, Leutychides first sailed along in his ship, keeping as near to the shore as he could, and made this proclamation to the Ionians by the voice of a herald: