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which four hundred ships have suffered shipwreck."238. {ta seoutou de tithemenos eu gnomen ekho}: for {ekho} someinferior MSS. have {ekhe}, which is adopted by several Editors,"Rather set thy affairs in good order and determine not toconsider," etc.239. {to pareon troma}, i.e. their defeat.240. {kai esti dusmenes te sige}. Some commentators understand {tesige} to mean "secretly," like {sige}, viii. 74.241. See ch. 220.242. Many Editors pronounce the last chapter to be an interpolation,but perhaps with hardly sufficient reason.BOOK VIIITHE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED URANIA1. Those of the Hellenes who had been appointed to serve in the fleetwere these:--the Athenians furnished a hundred and twenty-seven ships,and the Plataians moved by valour and zeal for the service, althoughthey had had no practice in seamanship, yet joined with the Atheniansin manning their ships. The Corinthians furnished forty ships, theMegarians twenty; the Chalkidians manned twenty ships with which theAthenians furnished them;[1] the Eginetans furnished eighteen ships,the Sikyonians twelve, the Lacedemonians ten, the Epidaurians eight,the Eretrians seven, the Troizenians five, the Styrians two, theKeïans two ships[2] and two fifty-oared galleys, while the Locrians ofOpus came also to the assistance of the rest with seven fifty-oaredgalleys.2. These were those who joined in the expedition to Artemision, and Ihave mentioned them according to the number[3] of the ships which theyseverally supplied: so the number of the ships which were assembled atArtemision was (apart from the fifty-oared galleys) two hundred andseventy-one: and the commander who had the supreme power was furnishedby the Spartans, namely Eurybiades son of Eurycleides, since theallies said that they would not follow the lead of the Athenians, butunless a Lacedemonian were leader they would break up the expeditionwhich was to be made: 3, for it had come to be said at first, evenbefore they sent to Sicily to obtain allies, that the fleet ought to