Histories

The purpose of this act was the same as Themsitocles' purpose at +Artemisium [23.2417,39.0083] (Perseus) Artemisium;[*](Cp. Hdt. 8.22.) either the message would be unknown to the barbarians and would prevail with the Ionians, or if it were thereafter reported to the barbarians, it would cause them to mistrust their Greek allies.

After this counsel of Leutychides, the Greeks brought their ships to land and disembarked on the beach, where they formed a battle column. But the Persians, seeing the Greeks prepare for battle and exhort the Ionians, first of all took away the Samians' armor, suspecting that they would aid the Greeks;

for indeed when the barbarian's ships brought certain Athenian captives, who had been left in Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica and taken by Xerxes' army, the Samians had set them all free and sent them away to Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens with provisions for the journey; for this reason in particular they were held suspect, as having set free five hundred souls of Xerxes' enemies.