The Twitter Herodotus

8.91The Athenians wrecked many enemy ships both in the fight & as they fled. The Aeginetans got them when they tried to leave the strait.

8.92 An Aeginetan mocked Themistocles, ship to ship, for questioning Aegina's allegiance. Meanwhile the Persians who could fled to Phalerum.

8.93 The Aeginetans earned the greatest repute in the battle, and after them the Athenians. Artemisia escaped safely to Phalerum.

8.94 The Athenians say the Corinthians fled the battle (until a god convinced them to return). But the other Greeks attest to their bravery.

8.95 Aristides led a bunch of armed Athenians to the island of Psyttaleia. They killed the Persians stationed there.

8.96 When the battle was over, the Greeks towed in what wrecks remained (the wind carried many toward Attica) and prepared to fight again.

8.97 Xerxes was worried the Greeks would sail to the Hellespont, destroy his bridges, & trap him in Europe. He secretly planned to run away.

8.98 He sent news of the defeat to Persia. The message was conveyed by mounted couriers who weren’t deterred by snow, rain, heat, or night.

8.99 Xerxes had sent them good news earlier, after he'd sacked Athens. Now the Persians lamented over this defeat, & they blamed Mardonius.

8.100 Mardonius, worried he’d pay a price for favoring war, suggested that Xerxes withdraw and leave it to him to take Greece.