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As soon as the sea-fight was ended, the Greeks drew together to
Salamis all the wrecks that were to be found in that quarter, and
prepared themselves for another engagement, supposing that the king
would renew the fight with the vessels which still remained to him.
Many of the wrecks had been carried away by a westerly wind to the
coast of Attica, where they were thrown upon the strip of shore called
Colias. Thus not only were the prophecies of Bacis and Musaeus
concerning this battle fulfilled completely, but likewise, by the
place to which the wrecks were drifted, the prediction of
Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, uttered many years before these
events, and quite forgotten at the time by all the Greeks, was fully
accomplished. The words were -
Then shall the sight of the oars fill Colian dames with amazement.
Now this must have happened as soon as the king was departed.
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