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For infantry and seamen both, the ships, dark-eyed1and linen-winged, [560] led forth （woe!）, the ships laid them low （woe!）, the ships, under the deadly impact of the foe and by the hands of Ionians. [565] The King himself, as we learn, has barely made his escape over the wintry paths which traverse the plains of Thrace.
1 The great eye that was often painted on each bow made a Greek ship seem a thing of life. Cp. Aesch. Supp. 716.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1. Persians. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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