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But if you do what I say, you will find it useful in these ways: first, by engaging many ships with our few in the strait, we shall win a great victory, if the war turns out reasonably, for it is to our advantage to fight in a strait and to their advantage to fight in a wide area. Second, Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis will survive, where we have carried our children and women to safety. It also has in it something you are very fond of: by remaining here you will be fighting for the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese just as much as at the Isthmus, and you will not lead them to the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, if you exercise good judgment.