§5.1Hic etsi male rem gesserat, tamen tantas habebat reliquias copiarum, ut etiamtum iis opprimere posset hostes: iterum ab eodem gradu depulsus est.
Although he had managed the matter badly, he still possessed such large remnants of his forces that even then he could have overwhelmed the enemy with them; yet he was once more driven from his position.
nam Themistocles, verens ne bellare perseveraret, certiorem eum fecit id agi, ut pons, quem ille in Hellesponto fecerat, dissolveretur ac reditu in Asiam excluderetur, idque ei persuasit.
For Themistocles, fearing that he might persist in waging war, informed him that a plot was afoot to destroy the bridge which he had built over the Hellespont, and to cut off his return to Asia; and he persuaded him of this.
§5.2itaque qua sex mensibus iter fecerat, eadem minus diebus triginta in Asiam reversus est seque a Themistocle non superatum, sed conservatum iudicavit.
Therefore, by the same route along which he had made his march in six months, he returned to Asia in less than thirty days, and judged that he had not been conquered by Themistocles, but saved.
§5.3sic unius viri prudentia Graecia liberata est Europaeque succubuit Asia.
Thus by the wisdom of a single man Greece was liberated, and Asia succumbed to Europe.
haec altera victoria, quae cum Marathonio possit comparari tropaeo.
This is a second victory, which can be compared with the trophy of Marathon.
nam pari modo apud Salamina parvo numero navium maxima post hominum memoriam classis est devicta.
For in like manner at Salamis, with a small number of ships, the greatest fleet in human memory was utterly defeated.