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While the others put in at Salamis, the Athenians landed in their own country. When they arrived, they made a proclamation that every Athenian should save his children and servants as he best could. Thereupon most of them sent the members of their households to Troezen, and some to Aegina and Salamis.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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