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τὸ τρῶμα: as in vi. 132. 1. H. does not explicitly say the disaster was Persian.

κατέατο, ‘lay inactive’. The story is resumed from viii. 132. The Persian fleet had been ‘stationed’ (κατήμενοι, viii. 130. 2) at Samos, and an embassy from Chios had already asked for help from the Greeks (viii. 132). For Theomestor cf. viii. 85. 2 n.

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