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The Eginetan trireme, under its captain, Asonides, gave the
Persians no little trouble, one of the men-at-arms, Pythes, the
son of Ischenous, distinguishing himself beyond all the others who
fought that day. After the ship was taken this man continued to
resist, and did not cease fighting till he fell quite covered with
wounds. The Persians who served as men-at-arms in the squadron,
finding that he was not dead, but still breathed, and being very
anxious to save his life, since he had behaved so valiantly, dressed
his wounds with myrrh, and bound them up with bandages of cotton.
Then, when they were returned to their own station, they displayed
their prisoner admiringly to the whole host, and behaved towards him
with much kindness; but all the rest of the ship's crew were treated
merely as slaves.
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