king: for as to this, it is very manifest, seeing that Attica is
deserted, that this which utters the sound is of the gods, and that it
is going from Eleusis to help the Athenians and their allies: if then it
shall come down in the Peloponnese, there is danger for the king himself
and for the army which is upon the mainland, but if it shall direct
its course towards the ships which are at Salamis, the king will be in
danger of losing his fleet. This feast the Athenians celebrate every
year to the Mother and the Daughter; 39 and he that desires it, both of
them and of the other Hellenes, is initiated in the mysteries; and the
sound of voices which thou hearest is the cry Iacchos which they utter
at this feast." To this Demaratos said: "Keep silence and tell not this
tale to any other man; for if these words of thine be reported to the
king, thou wilt surely lose thy head, and neither I nor any other man
upon earth will be able to save thee: but keep thou quiet, and about
this expedition the gods will provide." He then thus advised, and after
the cloud of dust and the sound of voices there came a mist which was
borne aloft and carried towards Salamis to the camp of the Hellenes: and
thus they learnt (said he) that the fleet of Xerxes was destined to be
destroyed. Such was the report made by Dicaios the son of Theodykes,
appealing to Demaratos and others also as witnesses.

66. Meanwhile those who were appointed to serve in the fleet of Xerxes,
having gazed in Trachis upon the disaster of the Lacedemonians and
having passed over from thence to Histiaia, after staying three days
sailed through Euripos, and in other three days they had reached
Phaleron. And, as I suppose, they made their attack upon Athens not
fewer in number both by land and sea than when they had arrived at
Sepias and at Thermopylai: for against those of them who perished by
reason of the storm and those who were slain at Thermopylai and in the
sea-fights at Artemision, I will set those who at that time were not
yet accompanying the king, the Malians, Dorians, Locrians, and Boeotians
(who accompanied him in a body, except the Thespians and Plataians),
and moreover those of Carystos, Andros, and Tenos, with all the other
islanders except the five cities of which I mentioned the names before;
for the more the Persian advanced towards the centre of Hellas, the more
nations accompanied him.

67. So then, when all these had come to Athens except the Parians (n