Living
Book IX, 296
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Living
Scyllis, when Xerxes’ huge fleet was driving all Greece before it, invented submarine warfare. Descending into the hidden depths of the realm of Nereus, he cut the cables of the ships’ anchors. The Persian vessels, with all their crews, glided ashore and silently perished —the first achievement of Themistocles.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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