Note 255 — Chapter XLI · BATTLE OF SALAMIS. — RETREAT OF XERXES.
Reading edition
Herodot. viii, 79, 80.
Herodotus states, doubtless correctly, that Aristeidês, immediately after he had made the communication to the synod, went away, not pretending to take part in the debate: Plutarch represents him as present, and as taking part in it (Aristeidês, c. 9). According to Plutarch, Themistoklês desires Aristeidês to assist him in persuading Eurybiadês: according to Herodotus, Eurybiadês was already persuaded: it was the Peloponnesian chiefs who stood out.
The details of Herodotus will be found throughout both more credible and more consistent than those of Plutarch and the later writers.