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This is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that the Athenians came not in one ship only, for they could easily have kept off a single ship, or several, for that matter, even if they had no navy themselves. The truth was, they said, that the Athenians descended upon their coasts with many ships and that they yielded to them without making a fight of it at sea.
This is the Athenian version of the matter, but the Aeginetans say that the Athenians came not in one ship only, for they could easily have kept off a single ship, or several, for that matter, even if they had no navy themselves. The truth was, they said, that the Athenians descended upon their coasts with many ships and that they yielded to them without making a fight of it at sea.
[2] They are not able to determine clearly whether it was because they admitted to being weaker at sea-fighting that they yielded, or because they were planning what they then actually did.
[3] When, as the
Aeginetans say, no man came out to fight with them, the
Athenians disembarked from their ships and turned their attention to the images. Unable to drag them from the bases, they fastened cords on them and dragged them until they both—this I cannot believe, but another might—fell on their knees. Both have remained in this position ever since.
[4] This is what the
Athenians did, but the
Aeginetans say that they discovered that the
Athenians were about to make war upon them and therefore assured themselves of help from the
Argives. So when the
Athenians disembarked on the land of
+Aegina [23.433,37.75] (inhabited place), Aegina, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aegina, the
Argives came to aid the
Aeginetans, crossing over from
Epidauros [23.0917,37.6] (Perseus)Epidaurus to the island secretly. They then fell upon the
Athenians unaware and cut them off from their ships. It was at this moment that the thunderstorm and earthquake came upon them
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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