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The men belonging to the fleet of Xerxes, after they had seen the
Spartan dead at Thermopylae, and crossed the channel from Trachis to
Histiaea, waited there by the space of three days, and then sailing
down through the Euripus, in three more came to Phalerum. In my
judgment, the Persian forces both by land and sea when they invaded
Attica were not less numerous than they had been on their arrival at
Sepias and Thermopylae. For against the Persian loss in the storm
and at Thermopylae, and again in the sea-fights off Artemisium, I
set the various nations which had since joined the king - as the
Malians, the Dorians, the Locrians, and the Boeotians - each
serving in full force in his army except the last, who did not number
in their ranks either the Thespians or the Plataeans; and together
with these, the Carystians, the Andrians, the Tenians, and the
other people of the islands, who all fought on this side except the
five states already mentioned. For as the Persians penetrated further
into Greece, they were joined continually by fresh nations.
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