Note 41 — Chapter XXI · FROM SALAMIS TO MYCALE

It is unnecessary to remark, that the superstition of Herodotus is in this passage conspicuous. Diodorus Siculus is most sagacious, when he says that Leotychides, and those who were with him, knew nothing of the victory of Platæa; but that they contrived this stratagem to animate their troops. Polyænus relates the same in his Stratagemata.e “These things which happen by divine interposition,” says Herodotus, “are made known by various means.”