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“... few of the Hellenes died, for they knew how to swim, so those whose ships were destroyed and who were not killed in hand-to-hand combat swam safely to Salamis. Many barbarians, however, drowned in the sea, as they did not know how to swim.”

8.89
Herodotus, Histories.

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