Book 8
63.1
When Themistocles said this, Eurybiades changed his mind. I think he did so chiefly out of fear that the Athenians might desert them if they set sail for the Isthmus. If the Athenians left, the rest would be no match for the enemy, so he made the choice to remain there and fight.
64.1
After this skirmish of words, since Eurybiades had so resolved, the men at Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis prepared to fight where they were. At sunrise on the next day there was an earthquake on land and sea,
64.2
and they resolved to pray to the gods and summon the sons of Aeacus as allies. When they had so resolved, they did as follows: they prayed to all the gods, called Ajax and Telamon to come straight from Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis, and sent a ship to +Aegina [23.433,37.75] (inhabited place), Aegina, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aegina for Aeacus and his sons.
65.1
Dicaeus son of Theocydes, an Athenian exile who had become important among the Medes, said that at the time when the land of Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica was being laid waste by Xerxes' army and there were no Athenians in the country, he was with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian on the Thriasian plain and saw advancing from +Eleusis [23.5583,38.0417] (Perseus) Eleusis a cloud of dust as if raised by the feet of about thirty thousand men. They marvelled at what men might be raising such a cloud of dust and immediately heard a cry. The cry seemed to be the “Iacchus” of the mysteries,
