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They therefore contrived a plan, which was the following: They
detached two hundred of their ships from the rest, and - to prevent
the enemy from seeing them start - sent them round outside the island
of Sciathos, to make the circuit of Euboea by Caphareus and
Geraestus, and so to reach the Euripus. By this plan they thought
to enclose the Greeks on every side; for the ships detached would
block up the only way by which they could retreat, while the others
would press upon them in front. With these designs therefore they
dispatched the two hundred ships, while they themselves waited - since
they did not mean to attack the Greeks upon that day, or until they
knew, by signal, of the arrival of the detachment which had been
ordered to sail round Euboea. Meanwhile they made a muster of the
other ships at Aphetae.
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