Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
92. Then there met one another the ship of Themistocles, which was
pursuing a ship of the enemy, and that of Polycritos the son of Crios
the Eginetan. This last had charged against a ship of Sidon, the same
that had taken the Eginetan vessel which was keeping watch in advance at
Skiathos, 56 and in which sailed Pytheas the son of Ischenoös, whom
the Persians kept in their ship, all cut to pieces as he was, making a
marvel of his valour. The Sidonian ship then was captured bearing with
it this man as well as the Persians of whom I spoke, so that Pytheas
thus came safe to Egina. Now when Polycritos looked at the Athenian
vessel he recognised when he saw it the sign of the admiral's ship, and
shouting out he addressed Themistocles with mockery about the accusation
brought against the Eginetans of taking the side of the Medes, 57 and
reproached him. This taunt Polycritos threw out against Themistocles
after he had charged against the ship of Sidon. And meanwhile those
Barbarians whose ships had escaped destruction fled and came to Phaleron
to be under cover of the land-army.
93. In this sea-fight the Eginetans were of all the Hellenes the best
reported of, and next to them the Athenians; and of the individual
men the Eginetan Polycritos and the Athenians Eumenes of Anagyrus and
Ameinias of Pallene, the man who had pursued after Artemisia. Now if
he had known that Artemisia was sailing in this ship, he would not have
ceased until either he had taken her or had been taken himself; for
orders had been given to the Athenian captains, and moreover a prize was
offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive;
since they thought it intolerable that a woman should make an expedition
against Athens. She then, as has been said before, had made her escape;
and the others also, whose ships had escaped destruction, were at
Phaleron.
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