he land-army.

93. In this sea-fight the Eginetans were of all the Hellenes the best
reported of, and next to them the Athenians; and of the individual
men the Eginetan Polycritos and the Athenians Eumenes of Anagyrus and
Ameinias of Pallene, the man who had pursued after Artemisia. Now if
he had known that Artemisia was sailing in this ship, he would not have
ceased until either he had taken her or had been taken himself; for
orders had been given to the Athenian captains, and moreover a prize was
offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive;
since they thought it intolerable that a woman should make an expedition
against Athens. She then, as has been said before, had made her escape;
and the others also, whose ships had escaped destruction, were at
Phaleron.

94. As regards Adeimantos the commander of the Corinthians, the
Athenians say that forthwith at the beginning when the ships were
engaging in the fight, being struck with panic and terror he put up his
sails and fled away; and the Corinthians, when they saw the admiral's
ship fleeing, departed likewise: and after this, as the story goes, when
they came in their flight opposite to the temple of Athene Skiras in
the land of Salamis, there fell in with them by divine guidance a
light vessel, 58 which no one was ever found to have sent, and which
approached the Corinthians at a time when they knew nothing of that
which was happening with the fleet. And by this it is conjectured 59
that the matter was of the Deity; for when they came near to the ships,
the men in the light vessel said these words: "Adeimantos, thou hast
turned thy ships away and hast set forth to flee, deserting the cause of
the Hellenes, while they are in truth gaining a victory and getting
the better of their foes as much as they desired." When they said this,
since Adeimantos doubted of it, they spoke a second time and said that
they might be taken as hostages and slain, if the Hellenes should prove
not to be gaining the victory. Then he turned his ship back, he and the
others with him, and they reached the camp when the work was finished.
Such is the report spread by the Athenians against these: the
Corinthians however do not allow this to be so, but hold that they were
among the first in the sea-fight; and the rest of Hellas also bears
witness on their side.

95. Aristeides moreover the son of Lysimachos, the Athenian, of whom
I made mention also shortly before this a