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The fleet was commanded by the following - Ariabignes, the son of
Darius, Prexaspes, the son of Aspathines, Megabazus, the son of
Megabates, and Achaemenes, the son of Darius. Ariabignes, who
was the child of Darius by a daughter of Gobryas, was leader of the
Ionian and Carian ships; Achaemenes, who was own brother to
Xerxes, of the Egyptian; the rest of the fleet was commanded by the
other two. Besides the triremes, there was an assemblage of
thirty-oared and fifty-oared galleys, of cercuri, and transports for
conveying horses, amounting in all to three thousand.
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