Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When Themistocles said this, Eurybiades changed his mind. I think he did so chiefly out of fear that the Athenians might desert them if they set sail for the Isthmus. If the Athenians left, the rest would be no match for the enemy, so he made the choice to remain there and fight.

After this skirmish of words, since Eurybiades had so resolved, the men at Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis prepared to fight where they were. At sunrise on the next day there was an earthquake on land and sea,