Note 203 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Περὶ Ἀρτεμίσιον.
Pindar. Fragm. xl. p. 75. edit. Heyne.
ὅθι παῖδες Ἀθηναί- ων ἐβάλοντο φαεννὰν κρηπῖδ’ ἐλευθερίας.
Plato (λόγος ἐπιτάφιος) gives the first and principal honours (ἀριστεῖα) to the victors of Marathon—τὰ δὲ δευτερεῖα, τοῖς περὶ Σαλαμῖνα καὶ ἐπ’ Ἀρτεμισίῳ ναυμαχήσασι καὶ νικήσασι. Artemisium was a northern promontory of the island of Eubœa; Psyttalia, a small, rocky, and barren isle, off the coast of Attica, and near to Salamis; Cyprus, an island of the Mediterranean Sea. The naval victories of Themistocles and Cimon are too well known to need any detail.