Histories

Herodotus

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

Thus he advised, and after the dust and the cry came a cloud, which rose aloft and floated away towards Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis to the camp of the Hellenes. In this way they understood that Xerxes' fleet was going to be destroyed. Dicaeus son of Theocydes used to say this, appealing to Demaratus and others as witnesses.

When those stationed with Xerxes' fleet had been to see the Laconian disaster at +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae, they crossed over from +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis to Histiaea, waited three days, and then sailed through the Euripus, and in three more days they were at Phalerum, the port of Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens. I think no less a number invaded Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens by land and sea than came to Sepias and +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae.

Those killed by the storm, at +Thermopylae [22.5583,38.8] (Perseus) Thermopylae, and in the naval battles at +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium, I offset with those who did not yet follow the king: the Melians and Dorians and Locrians and the whole force of Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia except the Thespians and Plataeans; and the Carystians and Andrians and Teneans and all the rest of the islanders, except the five cities whose names I previously mentioned. The farther into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas the Persian advanced, the more nations followed him.