Note 260 — Chapter XLI · BATTLE OF SALAMIS. — RETREAT OF XERXES.
Reading edition
Simonides, Epigram 138, Bergk; Plutarch, De Herodot. Malignitate, c. 36.
According to Plutarch (Themist. 12) and Diodorus (xi, 17), it was the Persian admiral’s ship which was first charged and captured: if the fact had been so, Æschylus would probably have specified it.