When the battle was broken off, the Hellenes towed to Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis as many of the wrecks as were still there and kept ready for another battle, supposing that the king could still make use of his surviving ships.

A west wind had caught many of the wrecks and carried them to the shore in Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica called Colias. Thus not only was all the rest of the oracle fulfilled which Bacis and Musaeus had spoken about this battle, but also what had been said many years before this in an oracle by Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, concerning the wrecks carried to shore there. Its meaning had eluded all the Hellenes: The Colian women will cook with oars.But this was to happen after the king had marched away.