^{page 15 note 1} A good survey of the problems in Gomme, A. W., Commentary on Thucydides, i. 394–401.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 2} Most recently, Forrest, W. G., ‘Themistokles and Argos’, C.Q. x (1960), 241Google Scholar. Forrest cites Flacelière, R., R.E.A. lv (1953), 5–28Google Scholar, as supporting this position. Flacelière, however, never suggests an emendation of Thucydides; only of the historian's information as quoted by Plutarch: loc. cit., pp. 7–8 Cf. Gomme, , Commentary, pp. 398–399.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 3} Even after reaching shelter the ship had to lie at anchor a day and a night: Thuc. i. 137. 2.

^{page 15 note 4} e.g. Arist. Meteor. 364^a5, De Mundo 395^a2; Theophrastus, De Ventis 11. See other references and discussion by Rehm, , ‘Etesiai’, R.E. vi (1907), 713–717Google Scholar; in general, Maull, O., Griechische Mittelmeergebiet, pp. 21–23Google Scholar; Cary, M., Geogr. Background of Greek and Roman History, pp. 45–46.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 5} Diod. xx. 88. 7 mentions a notos ecnephias; cf. Hdt. viii. 12: wrecks were driven north from Artemisium to Aphetae.

^{page 15 note 6} Such as the onshore evening breeze that blows into the Thermaic Gulf: Casson, S., Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria, pp. 99–100.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 1} R.E.A. lv. 6–7.

^{page 16 note 2} There are no subtleties of navigation involved here. Modern caïques, many of them without instruments of any kind, sail in straight lines, and one assumes their ancestors did the same.