Note 177 — Chapter III

This is surely an exaggeration, as the passage through the islands to Asia Minor must have been familiar to them. Even the Spartans were used to the voyage (Herod. i. 70, 152; iii. 47, 57). The reason was rather, as Mr. Grote suggests, “fear of an enemy’s country, where they could not calculate the risk beforehand” (vol. v. p. 198).