[217] Herodot. viii, 50.
[218] Thucyd. ii, 16, 17.
[219] Plutarch, Themistoklês, c. 10, 11; and Kimon, c. 5.
[220] Whether this be the incident which Aristotle (Politic. v, 3, 5) had in his mind, we cannot determine.
[221] Plutarch, Themistoklês, c. x.
[222] Herodot. ix, 99.
[223] Herodot. viii, 43-48.
[224] Æschylus, Persæ, 347; Herodot. viii, 48; vi, 9; Pausanias, i, 14, 4. The total which Herodotus announces is three hundred and seventy-eight; but the items which he gives amount, when summed up, only to three hundred and sixty-six. There seems no way of reconciling this discrepancy except by some violent change, which we are not warranted in making.
Ktesias represents that the numbers of the Persian war-ships at Salamis were above one thousand, those of the Greeks seven hundred (Persica, c. 26).
The Athenian orator in Thucydides (i, 74) calls the total of the Grecian fleet at Salamis “nearly four hundred ships, and the Athenian contingent somewhat less than two parts of this total (ναῦς μέν γε ἐς τὰς τετρακοσίας ὀλίγῳ ἐλάσσους τῶν δύο μοιρῶν).”