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Attic ships came to reinforce the Greeks ; and 

 both these by their arrival gave them additional 

 courage, as did the news that came at the same 

 time, that those of the barbarians who were sailing 

 round Euboea had all perished in the late storm ; 

 therefore, having waited to the same hour, they 

 set sail and attacked the Cilician ships, and, 

 having destroyed them, as soon as it was night 

 they sailed back to Artemisium. 



On the third day, the commanders of the bar- 

 barians, indignant at being insulted by so few 

 ships, and fearing the displeasure of Xerxes, no 

 longer waited for the Greeks to begin the battle ; but, 

 encouragmg one another, got under weigh about 

 the middle of the day. It happened that these 

 actions by sea and those by hind at Thermopyhv; 

 took place on the same days ; and the whole 

 struggle for those at sea was for the Euripus, as 

 for those with Leonidas to guard the pass. The 

 one party encouraging each other not to suffer the 

 barbarians to enter Greece ; and the other, to de- 

 stroy the Grecian forces and make themselves 

 masters of the channel. 



When the barbarians, having formed in line, 

 sailed onwards, the Grecians remained still at 

 Artemisium ; but the barljarians, having drawn up 

 their ships in tlie form of a crescent, encircled 

 them as if they would take them ; whereupon the 

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