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Having so resolved, the commanders put out to sea; and passing the
temple of the Eumenides, arrived at Gaeson and Scolopoeis, which
are in the territory of Mycale. Here is a temple of Eleusinian
Ceres, built by Philistus the son of Pasicles who came to Asia with
Neileus the son of Codrus, what time he founded Miletus. At this
place they drew the ships up on the beach, and surrounded them with a
rampart made of stones and trunks of trees, cutting down for this
purpose all the fruit-trees which grew near, and defending the barrier
by means of stakes firmly planted in the ground. Here they were
prepared either to win a battle, or undergo a siege - their thoughts
embracing both chances.
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