Tunny-fishing has always been prominent in the occupations on the Mediterranean coasts, and the sailors who formed so large a part of every Athenian audience would be familiar with the process here described, of striking or harpooning them. Aristophanes (_Wasps_, 1087) coins (or uses) the word “to tunny” (θυννάζω) to express the act. Comp. Herod. i. 62. Footnote 40: _Sc._, Psyttaleia, lying between Salamis and the mainland. Pausanias (i. 36-82) describes it in his time as having no artistic shrine or statue, but full everywhere of roughly carved images of Pan, to whom the island was sacred. It lay just opposite the entrance to the Peiræos. The connexion of Pan with Salamis and its adjacent islands seems implied in Sophocles, _Aias_, 695. Footnote 41: The manœuvre was, we learn from Herodotos (viii. 95), the work of Aristeides, the personal friend of Æschylos, and the statesman with whose policy he had most sympathy. Footnote 42: The lines are noted as probably a spurious addition, by a weaker hand, to the text, as introducing surplusage, as inconsistent with Herodotos, and as faulty in their metrical structure. Footnote 43: So Herodotos (viii. 115) describes them as driven by hunger to eat even grass and leaves. Footnote 44: No trace of this passage over the frozen Strymon appears in Herodotos, who leaves the reader to imagine that it was crossed, as before, by a bridge. It is hardly, indeed, consistent with dramatic probability that the courier should have remained to watch the whole retreat of the defeated army; and on this and other grounds, the latter part of the speech has been rejected by some critics as a later addition. Footnote 45: The Ionians, not of the Asiatic Ionia, but of Attica. Footnote 46: Kychreia, the archaic name of Salamis. Footnote 47: The ritual described is Hellenic rather than Persian, and takes its place (Soph. _Electr._ 836; Eurip. _Iphig. Taur._ 583; Homer, _Il._ xxiii. 219) as showing what offerings were employed to soothe or call up the spirits of the dead. Comp. Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ xxx. Footnote 48: The description obviously gives the state dress of the Persian kings. They alone wore the tiara erect. Xen. _Kyrop._ viii. 3, 13. Footnote 49: Either that he has felt the measured tread of the mourners round his tomb, as they went wailing round and round, or that he has heard the rush of armies, and seen the plain tracked by chariot-wheels, and comes, not knowing all these things, to learn what it means. Footnote 50: The words point to the widespread belief that when the souls of the dead were permitted to return to the earth, it was with strict limitations as to the time of their leave of absence. Footnote 51: Perhaps—“I dread to speak the truth.” Footnote 52: According to Herodotos (vii. 225) two brothers of Xerxes fell at Thermopylæ. Footnote 53: