Histories

Themistocles, however, picked out the seaworthiest Athenian ships and made his way to the places where drinking water could be found. Here he engraved on the rocks words which the Ionians read on the next day when they came to +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium. This was what the writing said: “Men of Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia, you do wrongly to fight against the land of your fathers and bring slavery upon Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.