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Such as put the loss of the Persian fleet in this storm at the lowest
say that four hundred of their ships were destroyed, that a countless
multitude of men were slain, and a vast treasure engulfed.
Ameinocles, the son of Cretines, a Magnesian, who farmed land near
Cape Sepias, found the wreck of these vessels a source of great gain
to him; many were the gold and silver drinking-cups, cast up long
afterwards by the surf, which he gathered; while treasure-boxes too
which had belonged to the Persians, and golden articles of all kinds
and beyond count, came into his possession. Ameinocles grew to be a
man of great wealth in this way; but in other respects things did not
go over well with him: he too, like other men, had his own grief -
the calamity of losing his offspring.
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