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For, after the departure of Xerxes, when the Grecian fleet was arrived at Pagasae, where they wintered, Themistocles, in a public oration to the people of Athens, told them that he had a design to perform something that would tend greatly to their interests and safety, but was of such a nature, that it could not be made generally public.
Another sea-fight was the result, since the Greeks were not only aided by the storm, but new re-enforcements; but this second fight was indecisive. Themistocles now felt he could not hold the strait against superior numbers, and the disaster of Thermopylæ being also now known, he resolved to retreat farther into Greece, and sailed for Salamis.
At that moment the fourth and last item on the programme began, which was called "Greek Songs by Heraclius Themistocles Margaritis." "He certainly looks like a Greek," said the lady who had been talking; "in fact if his hair was cut he would be quite good-looking." "It's not my idea of a Greek," whispered her neighbour. "He is too fair. I thought Greeks were dark."
"We ought to raze that city as flat as a football field, and then play football on it with King Orgzild's head." "Any special reason?" von Schlichten asked. "In addition to the Blount-Lemoyne massacre, that is?" "I should say so, general!" Themistocles M'zangwe backed Meyerstein up. "Bob, you tell him." Colonel Robert Grinell, the Intelligence officer, got up and took the cigar out of his mouth.
She rose from her seat, and, taking him by the hand, very familiarly turned him round in the middle of the company. "This," said she, "is one of our Fabiuses, one of our Decii. Good God, my friend, what would you do, if a brother officer shook a cane over your shoulders as he did over those of the divine Themistocles?
In his youth he was inordinately fond of pleasure, and revealed none of those characteristics for which he subsequently became distinguished. But his friends encouraged him to follow in his father's footsteps, and Aristides soon discovered in him a capacity and disposition that he could use to advantage in his own antagonism to Themistocles.
At the gathering of the Greek chiefs in Eurybiades’s cabin Themistocles had spoken one word many times,—“Fight!” To which Adeimantus, the craven admiral of Corinth, and many another had answered:— “Delay! Back to the Isthmus! Risk nothing!” Then at last the son of Neocles silenced them, not with arguments but threats. “Either here in the narrow straits we can fight the king or not at all.
And on Themistocles telling the people in assembly that he had some advice for them, which could not be given in public, but was most important for the advantage and security of the city, they appointed Aristides alone to hear and consider it with him.
The private friendship of Simonides the poet erected also a monument to Megistias, the soothsayer, in which it was said truly to his honour, "That the fate he foresaw he remained to brave;" The Advice of Demaratus to Xerxes. Themistocles. Actions off Artemisium. The Greeks retreat. The Persians invade Delphi, and are repulsed with great Loss.
For I had a lion to tame, from whose intractable fury the greatest men of my country, and of the whole world, with all their wisdom and virtue, could not save themselves. Themistocles and Aristides were examples of terror that might well have deterred me from the administration of public affairs at Athens.
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