There is an islet, fronting Salamis,
To ships unfriendly, of dance-loving Pan[n17]
The chosen haunt, and near the Attic coast.
Here Xerxes placed his chiefest men, that when
The routed Greeks should seek this strand, our troops
Might both aid friends, where friends their aid required,
And kill the scattered Greeks, an easy prey;
Ill-auguring what should hap! for when the gods
Gave to the Greeks the glory of the day,[f28]
Straightway well-cased in mail from their triremes