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γῆς τῆς Ἱστιαιώτιδος depends on Ἀρτεμίσιον. The north of Euboea is the territory of Histiaea (viii. 23. 2). The name Histiaeotis was also given (cf. i. 56. 3 n.) to the land of the Perrhaebi in N. Thessaly (ch. 128. 1 n.).

ταῦτα: i. e. Thermopylae and Artemisium. The fleet at Artemisium guarded not only the Euripus (ch. 183. 1; viii. 15. 2), but ‘the only landing-places which give practicable access to the interior of the country north of Marathon’ (J. H. S. xxii. 304). Munro (J. H. S. xxii. 312) further brings out admirably not only that ‘Thermopylae could not have been held without Artemisium, for it would have been at once turned by the enemies’ fleet, but also that Artemisium was useless without Thermopylae, for the Persians would never have attacked the Greek fleet but simply sailed past it outside Euboea, if the land road to the Isthmus had been open. All they wanted was to get their army and fleet to the Peloponnese at the same time’. Cf. also App. XX, §§ 1, 3, and 5.

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