The Histories · 8.78

Now between the commanders that were at Salamis there came to be great contention of speech and they did not yet know that the Barbarians were surrounding them with their ships, but they thought that they were still in their place as they saw them disposed in the day.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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