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BATTLES OP PLATJ;A AND MYKALE. 147 and they are even said to have excited the jealousy of the Athe- nians so much, that he was displaced from his post of general and Xanthippus nominated.^ Neither of these last reports is likely to be true, nor is either of them confirmed by Herodotus : the fact that Xanthippus became general of the fleet during the ensuing year, is in the regular course of Athenian change of officers, and impli?.s no peculiar jealousy of Themistokles. CHAPTER XLII. BATTLES OF PLAT.EA AND MYKALE.- FINAL REPULSE OF THE PERSIANS. Though the defeat at Salamis deprived the Persians of all hope from farther maritime attack of Greece, they still anticipated success by land from the ensuing campaign of Mardonius. Their fleet, after having conveyed the monarch himself with his accom- panying land-force across the Hellespont, retired to winter at Kyme and Samos : in the latter of which places large rewards were bestowed upon Theomestor and Phylakus, two Samian cap- tains who had distinguished themselves in the late engagement Theomgstor was even nominated despot of Samos under Persian protection.2 Early in the spring they were reassembled, to the number of four hundred sail, but without the Phenicians, at the naval station of Samos, intending, however, only to maintain a watchful guard over Ionia, and hardly supposing that the Greek fleet would venture to attack them.3 For a long time, the conduct of that fleet was such as to jus- tify such a belief in its enemies. Assembled at ^gina in the spring, to the number of one hundred and ten ships, under the ' Diodor. xi, 27 : compare Herodot. viii, 125, and Tliucyd. i, 74. • Herodot. viii, 85. ^ Herodot. viii, 130 ; Diodor xi, 27.