Note 251 — Chapter XLI · BATTLE OF SALAMIS. — RETREAT OF XERXES.
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Thucydid. i, 137. It is curious to contrast this with Æschylus, Persæ, 351, seq. See also Herodot. viii, 109, 110.
Isokratês might well remark about the ultimate rewards given by the Persians to Themistoklês,—Θεμιστοκλέα δ’, ὃς ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἑλλάδος αὐτοὺς κατεναυμάχησε, τῶν μεγίστων δωρέων ἠξίωσαν (Panegyric, Or. iv, p. 74),—though that orator speaks as if he knew nothing about the stratagem by which Themistoklês compelled the Greeks to fight at Salamis against their will. See the same Oration, c. 27, p. 61.