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συνεκύρεον: cp. συνεκύρησε c. 87 supra. The anecdote which follows is remarkable, inter alia, in its bearing on the problem of Hdt.'s composition. ‘Polykritos, son of Krios, an Aiginetan,’ is introduced, without the slightest apparent reference to the story of the meeting of his father Krios with King Kleomenes, 6. 50 supra. Perhaps this is the earlier passage and the earlier anecdote, the enmity of Polykritos and Themistokles having revived, or generated, the story of the medism of Krios 10-11 years earlier; cp. Introduction, §§ 7, 8. The Sidonian ship must have been originally on the right of the Persian line, or at the head of the Persian column. (By this time the Greek right has probably all pushed out well past Psyttaleia, but the Aiginetans ὑποστάντες, c. 91 supra.）
ἥ περ εἷλε ... ἐκπαγλεόμενοι: an implicit reference back to the story told 7. 181 supra, with close verbal comcidences, unintelligible except to a reader. ὥστε ... οὕτω is one thing, οὕτω ὥστε another; cp. c. 90 supra.
τὸ σημήιον ... τῆς στρατηγίδος: i.e. the admiral's flag, or ensign, whatever it was; cp. τὸ ἐπίσημον τῆς νεός (of Artemisia) c. 88 supra. That the ship was an Attic ship he would have known before identifying it as the Flag-ship. Themistokles was assuredly not the only Athenian Strategos at Salamis; probably all nine others were there (δέκατος αὐτός Thuc.), but he was certainly ἡγεμών—and doubtless had a thoroughly distinctive and unmistakable pennon or crest. K. O. Muller, Aeginetica p. 125, suggests that Polykritos was commander-in-chief of the Aiginetans; if so, he had supported Themistokles' plans, c. 74 supra. Or was he perhaps captain of the ship which had run the blockade to invoke the Aiakids?
βώσας ... ὀνειδίζων, ‘after a loud cry (perhaps Themistokles’ very name) he reproached Themistokles in bitter terms with reference to the charge of medism against the Aiginetans'—a rather clumsy passage, containing an obscure allusion — nothing having previously been said of any charge of ‘medism’ against Aigina (except the old charge back in 491 B. C., cp. 6. 49 supra: had Themistokles a hand in that?). With ἐπεκερτόμησε cp. the adj. κέρτομος in 5. 83. One is almost tempted to think that the Attic and Aiginetan ship had collided (νηὶ ἐμβαλών). The emendations do not affect this materially. ἀπέρριψε: cp. 4. 142, 1. 32, 153.
ἐς Φάληρον ὑπὸ τὸν πεζὸν στρατόν, ‘into Phaleron, under cover of the landforces’—which cannot, therefore, all have marched westward; cp. c. 70 supra. Doubtless the Persian land-forces had lined the whole coast of the straits during the day.
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