him that which he had chosen. And forthwith after this he had a
natural gift of divination, 105 so that he became very famous..

95. Of this Euenios, I say, Deiphonos was the son, and he was acting
as diviner for the army, being brought by the Corinthians. I have heard
however also that Deiphonos wrongly made use of the name of Euenios, and
undertook work of this kind about Hellas, not being really the son of
Euenios.

96. Now when the sacrifices were favourable to the Hellenes, they put
their ships to sea from Delos to go to Samos; and having arrived off
Calamisa 106 in Samos, they moored their ships there opposite the temple
of Hera which is at this place, and made preparations for a sea-fight;
but the Persians, being informed that they were sailing thither, put out
to sea also and went over to the mainland with their remaining ships,
(those of the Phenicians having been already sent away to sail home):
for deliberating of the matter they thought it good not to fight a
battle by sea, since they did not think that they were a match for the
enemy. And they sailed away to the mainland in order that they might
be under the protection of their land-army which was in Mycale, a body
which had stayed behind the rest of the army by command of Xerxes and
was keeping watch over Ionia: of this the number was six myriads 107 and
the commander of it was Tigranes, who in beauty and stature excelled the
other Persians. The commanders of the fleet then had determined to take
refuge under the protection of this army, and to draw up their ships
on shore and put an enclosure round as a protection for the ships and a
refuge for themselves..

97. Having thus determined they began to put out to sea; and they came
along by the temple of the "Revered goddesses" 10701 to the Gaison
and to Scolopoeis in Mycale, where there is a temple of the Eleusinian
Demeter, which Philistos the son of Pasicles erected when he had
accompanied Neileus the son of Codros for the founding of Miletos; and
there they drew up their ships on shore and put an enclosure round them
of stones and timber, cutting down fruit-trees for this purpose, and
they fixed stakes round the enclosure and made their preparations
either for being besieged or for gaining a victory, for in making their
preparations they reckoned for both chances.

98. The Hellenes however, when they were informed that the Barbarians
had gone away to the mainland, were vexed because they thought that