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Καλάμοισι: Alexis of Samos (ap. Athen. 572 f.; F. H. G. iv. 299) mentions a temple of Aphrodite ἐν καλάμοις, which might well be the marshy ground near the mouth of the Imbrasus, between the Heraeum and the city of Samos. Perhaps the phrase τὸ Ἥραιον τὸ ταύτῃ is meant to indicate this position outside Samos; in any case the great Heraeum is meant, as is shown by H.'s usage elsewhere (i. 70. 3; iii. 123. 1; iv. 88. 1, 152. 4), and by the fact that no other Heraeum near Samos is known. The Greek fleet would naturally take post on the east side of the island near the town of Samos and opposite Mycale, as the Persian had done before.

ἀνῆγον: put out to sea across the narrow strait dividing Samos from Mycale (cf. i. 148. 1).

πρὸς τὴν ἤπειρον gives the result of their action, viz. to reach the mainland.

ἀπῆκαν ἀποπλέειν. Probably H. is right in holding that after Salamis the Persians dare not face the Greeks at sea, particularly as the Ionians were untrustworthy (Meyer, iii, § 238), and so sent the Phoenician ships home to secure their safety. Delbrück (Perserkriege, p. 104) strangely ascribes their departure to over-confidence caused by the long inaction of the Greek fleet, while Domaszewski (Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher, i. 188) suggests that they may have been sent to guard the coast of Thrace. Whether H. is right in postponing the departure of the Phoenicians till the Greeks reached Samos, or at least were sailing from Delos, is more doubtful (Stein). Diodorus (xi. 19; cf. viii. 130 n.) seems to mean that they sailed straight home from Salamis; at latest they must have gone at the first news of the Greek advance.

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