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meet together the ship of Themistocles, giving 

 chase to one of the enemy, and that of Polycritus, 

 son of Crius, an ^tginetan, bearing down upon a 

 Sidonian ship, the same that had taken the 

 i^ginetan ship, which was keeping watch ofif 

 Sciathus, and on board of which sailed Pytheas, 

 son of Ischenous, whom, though covered with 

 wounds, the Persians kept in the ship from admira- 

 tion of his valour. The Sidonian ship that carried 

 him about was taken with the Persians on board, 

 so that Pytheas, by this means, returned safe to 

 Aig'ma.. But when Polycritus saw the Athenian 

 ship, he knew it, seeing the admiral's ensign ; and, 

 shouting to Themistocles, he railed at him, up- 

 braiding him with the charge of Medism brought 

 against the /Eginit;u. Polycritus accordingly, as 

 he was attacking the ship, threw out these re- 

 proaches against Themistocles. But the bar- 

 barians, whose ships survived, fled and arrived 

 at Phalerus, under the protection of the land 

 forces. . . . 



When the sea-fight was ended, the Greeks, 

 having hauled on shore at Salamis all the wrecks 

 that still happened to be there, held themselves 

 ready for another battle, expecting that the king 

 would still make use of the ships that survived. 



Herodotus, 



