Histories

It was the design of the Persian admirals to flee to the shelter of that army, and there to beach their ships and build a fence round them which should be a protection for the ship and a refuge for themselves.

With this design they put to sea. So when they came past the temple of the Goddesses[*](Demeter and Persephone.) at Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale to the Gaeson and Scolopois,[*](The Gaeson was probably a stream running south of the hill called Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale; Scolopois, a place on its east bank (How and Wells).) where there is a temple of Eleusinian Demeter (which was built by Philistus son of Pasicles when he went with Nileus son of Codrus to the founding of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus), they beached their ships and fenced them round with stones and the trunks of orchard trees which they cut down; they drove in stakes around the fence and prepared for siege or victory, making ready, after consideration, for either event.

When the Greeks learned that the barbarians had gone off to the mainland, they were not all pleased that their enemy had escaped them, and did not know whether to return back or set sail for the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont. At last they resolved that they would do neither, but sail to the mainland.