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The Euboeans, who perceived the advantages of the plan of Themistocles, rewarded him with the sum of fifty talents, part of which he gave to the Spartan Eurybiades and the Corinthian Adimantus to induce them to remain at Artemisium. In the battle which then took place, the Greeks gained considerable advantage, though the victory was not decisive.
Possessed of this sum, he won over the sturdy Spartan by the gift of five talents, and to Adimantus the Corinthian, the most obstinate in retreat, he privately sent three . The remainder he kept for his own uses; distinguished from his compeers in this that he obtained a much larger share of the gift than they; that they were bribed to be brave, and that he was rewarded for bribing them.
And as for Adimantus himself, against whom Herodotus frequently inveighs, saying, that he was the only captain who went about to fly from Artemisium, and would not stay the fight, behold in how great honor he is: Here Adimantus rests: the same was he, Whose counsels won for Greece the crown of liberty.
Aristeus, son of Adimantus, who was always a steady friend to the Potidaeans, took command of the expedition, and it was principally for love of him that most of the men from Corinth volunteered. They arrived in Thrace forty days after the revolt of Potidaea. The Athenians also immediately received the news of the revolt of the cities.
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