the Lemnian ship which deserted before and came to Artemision, the naval
force of the Hellenes was completed to the number of three hundred and
eighty ships, for before this two ships were yet wanting to make up this
number.

83. The Hellenes then, since they believed that which was said by the
Tenians, were preparing for a sea-fight: and as the dawn appeared, they
made an assembly of those who fought on board the ships 50 and addressed
them, Themistocles making a speech which was eloquent beyond the rest;
and the substance of it was to set forth all that is better as opposed
to that which is worse, of the several things which arise in the nature
and constitution of man; and having exhorted them to choose the better,
51 and thus having wound up his speech, he bade them embark in their
ships. These then proceeded to embark, and there came in meanwhile the
trireme from Egina which had gone away to bring the sons of Aiacos.

84. Then the Hellenes put out all their ships, and while they were
putting out from shore, the Barbarians attacked them forthwith. Now
the other Hellenes began backing their ships and were about to run them
aground, but Ameinias of Pallene, an Athenian, put forth with his ship
and charged one of the enemy; and his ship being entangled in combat and
the men not being able to get away, the others joined in the fight to
assist Ameinias. The Athenians say that the beginning of the battle was
made thus, but the Eginetans say that the ship which went away to Egina
to bring the sons of Aiacos was that which began the fight. It is also
reported that an apparition of a woman was seen by them, and that having
appeared she encouraged them to the fight so that the whole of the army
of the Hellenes heard it, first having reproached them in these words:
"Madmen, 52 how far will ye yet back your ships?"

85. Opposite the Athenians had been ranged the Phenicians, for these
occupied the wing towards Eleusis and the West, and opposite the
Lacedemonians were the Ionians, who occupied the wing which extended to
the East and to Piraeus. Of them however a few were purposely slack
in the fight according to the injunctions of Themistocles, 53 but
the greater number were not so. I might mention now the names of many
captains of ships who destroyed ships of the Hellenes, but I will make
no use of their names except in the case of Theomestor, the son of
Androdamas and Phylacos the son of Histiaios, of Samos both: and
for thi