Histories

Here I am forced to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to most, but I will not refrain from saying what seems to me to be true.

Had the Athenians been panic-struck by the threatened peril and left their own country, or had they not indeed left it but remained and surrendered themselves to Xerxes, none would have attempted to withstand the king by sea. What would have happened on land if no one had resisted the king by sea is easy enough to determine.