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Aeschylus implies that the Persians sent a squadron round the island to enclose the Greeks. It must have been these detached ships from which Aristides had to flee (79, 81), yet they are never clearly mentioned in H.

Psyttaleia, said by Aeschylus to have been occupied by the flower of the Persian host, is described Pers. 447 f.νῆσός τις ἐστὶ πρόσθε Σαλαμῖνος τόπων βαιά, δύσορμος ναυσίν, ἣν φιλόχορος Πὰν ἐμβατεύει ... ἐνταῦθα πέμπει τούσδ᾽ ὅπως, ὅτ᾽ ἐκ νεῶν φθαρέντες ἐχθροὶ νῆσον ἐκσῳζοίατο, κτείνοιεν εὐχείρωτον Ἑλλήνων στρατόν, φίλους δ᾽ ὑπεκσῴζοιεν ἐναλίων πόρων”. Cf. also Plut. Arist. 9τὴν Ψυττάλειαν πρὸ τῆς Σαλαμῖνος ἐν τῷ πόρῳ κεῖται”. For the argument drawn from this as to the site of the battle cf. Appendix XXI. 4, 5.

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