HERODOTUS

BOOK VIII. 46-49islanders ;but they paid no heed to the commandand joined themselves to the Greeks, being invitedthereto by Democritus, a man of note in their town,,who was then captain of a trireme. The Naxiansare lonians, of Athenian lineage. The Styriansfurnished the same number as at Artemisium, andthe Cythnians one trireme and a fifty-oared bark ;both these peoples are Dryopians. There were alsoin the fleet men of Seriphos and Siphnos and Melos,these being the only islanders who had not given theforeigner earth and water.47. All these aforesaid came to the war fromcountries nearer than Thesprotia and the riverAcheron for ; Thesprotia marches with the Ampraciotsand Leucadians, who came from the landsfarthest distant. Of those that dwell farther offthan these, the men of Croton alone came to aidHellas in its peril,and they with one ship, whereofthe captain was Phayilus, a victor in the Pythiangames. These Crotoniats are of Achaean blood.48. All these furnished triremes for the fleet savethe Melians and Siplmians and Seriphians, whobrought fifty-oared barks, the Melians (who are ofLacedaemonian stock) two, and the Siplmians andSeriphians (who are lonians of Athenian lineage)one each. The whole number of the ships, besidesthe fifty-oared barks, was three hundred and seventyeight.49. When the leaders from the cities aforenamedmet at Salamis, they held a council ;Eurybiades laidthe matter before them, bidding whosoever wouldto declare what waters in his judgment ere fittestwrfor a sea-fight, among all places whereof the Greeks45