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[2] Who, facing the united might of all Asia, has found himself at the side of his city when its inhabitants had been driven from their homes,1 and still won the victory? Who in time of peace has made his fatherland powerful by deeds comparable to his? Who, when a gigantic war enveloped his state, brought it safely through and by the one single ruse of the bridge2 reduced the land armament of the enemy by half, so that it could be easily vanquished by the Greeks?

1 The Athenians all took refuge on the island of Salamis after the Persians had passed Thermopylae; cp. chap. 13.3 f.

2 Cp. chap. 19.5-6.

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