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“When we join battle, each one of you must remember first the freedom of all, and then the watchword 'Hebe'; and this let him also who has not heard know from him who has heard.” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 · precept
The Hellenes sail past Mycale’s temples, drawing up ships in a fortified enclosure built with stones, timber, and cleared fruit trees, preparing either for siege or victory.
under the protection of this army, and to draw up their ships on shore and put an enclosure round as a protection for the ships and a refuge for themselves.. 97. Having thus determined they began to put out to sea; and they came along by the temple of the "Revered goddesses" 10701 to the Gaison and to Scolopoeis in Mycale, where there is a temple of the Eleusinian Demeter, which Philistos the son of Pasicles erected…