§8.84.1ἐνθαῦτα ἀνῆγον τὰς νέας ἁπάσας Ἕλληνες, ἀναγομένοισι δέ σφι αὐτίκα ἐπεκέατο οἱ βάρβαροι.
Thereupon the Greeks launched all their ships, and as they were launching them, the barbarians immediately fell upon them.
οἱ μὲν δὴ ἄλλοι Ἕλληνες ἐπὶ πρύμνην ἀνεκρούοντο καὶ ὤκελλον τὰς νέας, Ἀμεινίης δὲ Παλληνεὺς ἀνὴρ Ἀθηναῖος ἐξαναχθεὶς νηὶ ἐμβάλλει·
Now the other Greeks began to back water and were backing their ships toward the shore, but Aminias of Pallene, an Athenian, pushed forward and rammed a ship.
συμπλακείσης δὲ τῆς νεὸς καὶ οὐ δυναμένων ἀπαλλαγῆναι, οὕτω δὴ οἱ ἄλλοι Ἀμεινίῃ βοηθέοντες συνέμισγον.
When his ship became entangled and they could not get free, then the others, coming to the aid of Aminias, joined in the battle.
§8.84.2Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν οὕτω λέγουσι τῆς ναυμαχίης γενέσθαι τὴν ἀρχήν, Αἰγινῆται δὲ τὴν κατὰ τοὺς Αἰακίδας ἀποδημήσασαν ἐς Αἴγιναν, ταύτην εἶναι τὴν ἄρξασαν.
The Athenians indeed say that the beginning of the sea battle came about in this way, but the Aeginetans say that the ship which had gone away to Aegina for the Aeacidae was the one that began it.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ τάδε, ὡς φάσμα σφι γυναικὸς ἐφάνη, φανεῖσαν δὲ διακελεύσασθαι ὥστε καὶ ἅπαν ἀκοῦσαι τὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων στρατόπεδον, ὀνειδίσασαν πρότερον τάδε,
ὦ δαιμόνιοι, μέχρι κόσου ἔτι πρύμνην ἀνακρούεσθε;
And this is also said, that a phantom of a woman appeared to them, and having appeared, she cried out so as to be heard by the whole camp of the Greeks, having first reproached them with these words: "You strange men, how much longer are you going to back water?"