[-8-] Caesar after this entered Sicily and Sextus encamped opposite him in the vicinity of Artemisium.

From there both the contestants, as they accomplished nothing, went to Artemisium.

Persuaded by him the Athenians increased their navy, so that of the 271 vessels comprising the Greek fleet at Artemisium, 147 had been provided by Athens, which also sent a large reinforcement after the first action.

[Footnote 56: Dio has evidently imitated at this point a sentence in Herodotos, VIII, 6 (as shown by the phraseology), where it is remarked that "the Persians [at Artemisium] were minded not to let a single soul" of the Greeks escape.

The sea-fights of Artemisium followed, in which the advantage was, though not decisively, with the Greeks; and that they finally retreated was owing to the success of the Persians at Thermopylae.

Between the first and second battle of Artemisium the Persians suffered from another storm, which inflicted great losses upon them.