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130.2
Mardontes son of Bagaeus and Artayntes son of Artachaees came to be their admirals, and Artayntes chose also his own nephew Ithamitres to have a share in the command. But by reason of the heavy blow dealt them they went no further out to sea westwards, nor did anyone insist that they should so do. They did, however, lie off +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos keeping watch against a revolt in Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia. The whole number of their ships, Ionian and other, was three hundred.
130.3
In truth they did not expect that the Greeks would come to Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia, but rather that they would be content to guard their own country. This they thought because the Greeks had not pursued them when they fled from Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, EuropeSalamis, but had been glad to be quit of them. In regard to the sea, the Persians were at heart beaten men, but they supposed that on land Mardonius would easily prevail.
130.4
So they were at +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos, and there planned to do what harm they could to their enemies and to listen in the interim for news of how Mardonius' affairs were proceeding.
131.1
As for the Greeks, the coming of spring and Mardonius' being in +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly moved them to action. They had not yet begun the mustering of their army, but their fleet, one hundred and ten ships, came to +Aegina [23.433,37.75] (inhabited place), Aegina, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aegina.
