| #### CHAPTER 81 |

| #### #### Then Aristides entered the assembly, and spoke to the captains: he had come, he told them, from Egina, and had but barely escaped the blockading vessels - the Greek fleet was entirely inclosed by the ships of Xerxes - and he advised them to get themselves in readiness to resist the foe. Having said so much, he withdrew. And now another contest arose; for the greater part of the captains would not believe the tidings. ####  |