§8.119.1οὗτος δὲ ἄλλος λέγεται λόγος περὶ τοῦ Ξέρξεω νόστου, οὐδαμῶς ἔμοιγε πιστὸς οὔτε ἄλλως οὔτε τὸ Περσέων τοῦτο πάθος·
But this is another story told about the return of Xerxes, which is in no way credible to me, either in other respects or especially regarding this disaster of the Persians.
εἰ γὰρ δὴ ταῦτα οὕτω εἰρέθη ἐκ τοῦ κυβερνήτεω πρὸς Ξέρξην, ἐν μυρίῃσι γνώμῃσι μίαν οὐκ ἔχω ἀντίξοον μὴ οὐκ ἂν ποιῆσαι βασιλέα τοιόνδε, τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ τοῦ καταστρώματος καταβιβάσαι ἐς κοίλην νέα ἐόντας Πέρσας καὶ Περσέων τοὺς πρώτους, τῶν δʼ ἐρετέων ἐόντων Φοινίκων ὅκως οὐκ ἂν ἴσον πλῆθος τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι ἐξέβαλε ἐς τὴν θάλασσαν.
For if indeed these things had been said in this way by the helmsman to Xerxes, I do not have, among ten thousand opinions, even one contrary to the view that the king would have done as follows: namely, to make those who were on the deck, being Persians and the chief of the Persians, go down into the hold of the ship, and how he would not have cast into the sea an equal number of the rowers, who were Phoenicians, to the Persians.
ἀλλʼ ὃ μέν, ὡς καὶ πρότερόν μοι εἴρηται, ὁδῷ χρεώμενος ἅμα τῷ ἄλλῳ στρατῷ ἀπενόστησε ἐς τὴν Ἀσίην.
But he, as has also been said by me before, returning by land along with the rest of the army, went back to Asia.