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Nevertheless the Athenians secured in this way seven of the vessels;
while with the remainder the barbarians pushed off, and taking aboard
their Eretrian prisoners from the island where they had left them,
doubled Cape Sunium, hoping to reach Athens before the return of the
Athenians. The Alcmaeonidae were accused by their countrymen of
suggesting this course to them; they had, it was said, an
understanding with the Persians, and made a signal to them, by
raising a shield, after they were embarked in their ships.
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