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ἔξωθεν Σκιάθου. Bury and Munro urge that to send the ships from Aphetae outside Sciathus in the afternoon could not prevent the Greeks at Artemisium from seeing them. On this and other grounds they argue that they were dispatched from the Sepiad strand. Cf. Appendix XX, § 6.

Caphereus (Cape Doro) and Geraestus (Cape Mantelo) are the south-east and south extremities of Euboea (Plin. H. N. iv. 63).


ἀριθμόν, ‘muster’ (vii. 59). The great losses caused by the storm would make reorganization necessary. Here, therefore, Busolt and Grundy insert two days. Cf. Appendix XX, § 5.

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