The brine and quickly all of them were visible.
The right wing in good order first led forth, and next
Came out and on the armament entire. Aye then,
As they came onward, loud the cry that reached our ears:
‘Sons of the Hellenes! On! Set free your native land!
Your children free, your wives, ancestral shrines of gods
And tombs of fathers’ fathers! Now for all we strive!’”
The “jargon” of the Persian host rolled back reply. A Greek ship was the first to grapple. Bronze beak smote beak. Triremes turned keel uppermost,—
“Until the water was no longer to be seen,
With wreckage of slain men and splintered vessels packed.