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Rationed on Pfyttalia to affift the men and difabled veffels, which
fhould fwim or float thitfher, or to dtftroy them, i f enemies.
The morning dawned, and the Greeks advanced from Salamis.
The Corinthian admiral, who was irrefolute, failed away wit
in the out-flcirts of Salamis, and returned. The Athenians
U S oppofite to the Phoenicians, who were on the right of the
Perfian linej and the Lacedemonians to th e Tomans, who were
on the le ft - The Barbarians fled toward Phalerum. The
^ginetans intercepted them, at the mouth | g the *nd’
during thé confufion, a party from Salamis landing on Pfyttalia
out the Perfiaas there in pieces.. T h e number, according to
Paufanias, was four hundred. Xerxes was a fpeSator of this
adtion, fitting on mount iEgaleos; and, as one author relates,
above the Heracleium. .Another has place«! hnp^on.Kerata,
S that mountain, is toé remote to be even ^probable ftation.
The filver-foóiei chair, which he «fed, was, pmferved for many
.ages among’ thePesfeia fpeifc in the Acropolis,
after his defeat, gave orders as i f he defigned to
renew i the - fight, and to p & : his army over into t h a t o d j
preparing to join it to the continent by a mole, where the ftrait
was only two ftadia wide. His. fleet abandoned Phalerum in the
night, and hafcened hack to the Hellevont to fecure his retreat
into Afia, Miflak-rng.the fsiall capes and ifiete by the promontory
Zeller for (hips, it fled with all poflihle fpeed.
v Diodorus places the Athenians andLacedsmonJans on. the. left o / * e Greek
line,Oppofite to the Phcepieians; the JBgiaetaps arid Megareofians on the. right,
the other Greeks inttoe centre, p. 417.
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