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While the Greeks were employed in the way described above, the scout
who had been on the watch at Trachis arrived at Artemisium. For the
Greeks had employed two watchers: Polyas, a native of Anticyra,
had been stationed off Artemisium, with a row-boat at his command
ready to sail at any moment, his orders being that, if an engagement
took place by sea, he should convey the news at once to the Greeks at
Thermopylae; and in like manner Abronychus the son of Lysicles, an
Athenian, had been stationed with a triaconter near Leonidas, to be
ready, in case of disaster befalling the land force, to carry tidings
of it to Artemisium. It was this Abronychus who now arrived with
news of what had befallen Leonidas and those who were with him. When
the Greeks heard the tidings they no longer delayed to retreat, but
withdrew in the order wherein they had been stationed, the Corinthians
leading, and the Athenians sailing last of all.
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