But the Greeks, when the signal was given them, first drew the sterns of their ships together, their prows turned towards the foreigners; then at the second signal they put their hands to the work, despite the fact that they were hemmed in within a narrow space and were fighting face-to-face.

There they took thirty of the foreigners ships as well as the brother of Gorgus king of Salamis [33.9,35.166] (deserted settlement), Famagusta, Cyprus, AsiaSalamis, Philaon son of Chersis, a man of note in the fleet. The first Greek to take an enemy ship was an Athenian, Lycomedes, son of Aeschraeus, and he it was who received the prize for valor.

They fought that sea-fight with doubtful issue, and nightfall ended the battle; the Greeks sailed back to +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, and the barbarians to +Aphetae [23.1167,39.1167] (Perseus) Aphetae, after faring far below their hopes in the fight. In that battle Antidorus of +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos, the only one of the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis.