en on board the ships, because of his valour used
all diligence to save his life, both applying unguents of myrrh to heal
his wounds and also wrapping him up in bands of the finest linen; and
when they came back to their own main body, they showed him to all the
army, making a marvel of him and giving him good treatment; but the rest
whom they had taken in this ship they treated as slaves.

182. Two of the three ships, I say, were captured thus; but the third,
of which Phormos an Athenian was master, ran ashore in its flight at
the mouth of the river Peneios; and the Barbarians got possession of
the vessel but not of the crew; for so soon as the Athenians had run the
ship ashore, they leapt out of her, and passing through Thessaly made
their way to Athens.

183. Of these things the Hellenes who were stationed at Artemision were
informed by fire-signals from Skiathos; and being informed of them
and being struck with fear, they removed their place of anchorage from
Atermision to Chalkis, intending to guard the Euripos, but leaving at
the same time watchers by day 170 on the heights of Euboea. Of the ten
ships of the Barbarians three sailed up to the reef called Myrmex, 171
which lies between Skiathos and Magnesia; and when the Barbarians had
there erected a stone pillar, which for that purpose they brought to
the reef, they set forth with their main body 172 from Therma, the
difficulties of the passage having now been cleared away, and sailed
thither with all their ships, having let eleven days go by since the
king set forth on his march from Therma. Now of this reef lying exactly
in the middle of the fairway they were informed by Pammon of Skyros.
Sailing then throughout the day the Barbarians accomplished the voyage
to Sepias in Magnesia and to the sea-beach which is between the city of
Casthanaia and the headland of Sepias.

184. So far as this place and so far as Thermopylai the army was exempt
from calamity; and the number was then still, as I find by computation,
this:--Of the ships which came from Asia, which were one thousand two
hundred and seven, the original number of the crews supplied by the
several nations I find to have been twenty-four myriads and also in
addition to them one thousand four hundred, 173 if one reckons at the
rate of two hundred men to each ship: and on board of each of these
ships there served as fighting-men, 174 besides the fighting-men
belonging to its own nation in each case, thirty m