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Those at the Isthmus were involved in so great a labor, since all they had was at stake and they did not expect the ships to win distinction. Those at Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Salamis heard of their labors but still were full of dread, fearing not for themselves but for the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese.
Those at the Isthmus were involved in so great a labor, since all they had was at stake and they did not expect the ships to win distinction. Those at Salamis (island), Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Salamis heard of their labors but still were full of dread, fearing not for themselves but for the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese.
[2] For a time each man talked quietly to his neighbor, wondering at
Eurybiades' folly, but finally it came out into the open. They held an assembly and talked at length on the same matters as before: some said they must sail away to the
+Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese and risk battle for that country, not stay and fight for a captured land; but the
Athenians and
Aeginetans and
Megarians said they must stay and defend themselves.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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