on; and then secondly it happened that though she
had done mischief, she yet gained great reputation by this thing with
Xerxes. For it is said that the king looking on at the fight perceived
that her ship had charged the other; and one of those present said:
"Master, dost thou see Artemisia, how well she is fighting, and how she
sank even now a ship of the enemy?" He asked whether this was in truth
the deed of Artemisia, and they said that it was; for (they declared)
they knew very well the sign of her ship: and that which was destroyed
they thought surely was one of the enemy; for besides other things
which happened fortunately for her, as I have said, there was this also,
namely that not one of the crew of the Calyndian ship survived to become
her accuser. And Xerxes in answer to that which was said to him is
reported to have uttered these words: "My men have become women, and my
women men." Thus it is said that Xerxes spoke.

89. And meanwhile in this struggle there was slain the commander
Ariabignes, son of Dareios and brother of Xerxes, and there were slain
too many others of note of the Persians and Medes and also of the
allies; and of the Hellenes on their part a few; for since they knew
how to swim, those whose ships were destroyed and who were not slain in
hand-to-hand conflict swam over to Salamis; but of the Barbarians the
greater number perished in the sea, not being able to swim. And when
the first ships turned to flight, then it was that the largest number
perished, for those who were stationed behind, while endeavouring to
pass with their ships to the front in order that they also might display
some deed of valour for the king to see, ran into the ships of their own
side as they fled.

90. It happened also in the course of this confusion that some of the
Phenicians, whose ships had been destroyed, came to the king and accused
the Ionians, saying that by means of them their ships had been lost, and
that they had been traitors to the cause. Now it so came about that not
only the commanders of the Ionians did not lose their lives, but the
Phenicians who accused them received a reward such as I shall tell.
While these men were yet speaking thus, a Samothrakian ship charged
against an Athenian ship: and as the Athenian ship was being sunk by
it, an Eginetan ship came up against the Samothrakian vessel and ran it
down. Then the Samothrakians, being skilful javelin-throwers, by hurling
cleared off the fighting-