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HISTOItY OF CAEIA. 21
rather the result of stratagem than of accident,
though Herodotus does not undertake to decide this
question. He hints, however, that some misunder-
standing may have taken place between Artemisia
and Damasithymus at the Hellespont.
The manner of Artemisia's escape was noticed by
Xerxes from his throne on the shore. He greatly
applauded her prowess, imagining that the vessel
she had sunk was one of the enemy's. It was on
this occasion that he uttered the reproachful words,
" My men have become women, and my women
men." After the battle, Xerxes again consulted
Artemisia, and was advised by her to return, leaving
the command of the expedition to Mardonius. He
afterwards sent her to Ephesus, giving her charge
of some illegitimate children who had accompanied
him to Greece.1
In the Icon Persike erected at Sparta from the
spoils of the Persians, the statue of Artemisia in
white marble was thought worthy to be associated
with that of Mardonius and other Persians.1'
Prom the high esteem in which the Garian queen
was held by Xerxes, it is to be inferred that he
found her a convenient instrument wherewith to
subdue the Hellenic and mixed barbarian races in
Caria and the adjacent islands, and gradually to
bring them under one common despotism.
In speaking of the contingent which she con-
tributed to the fleet of Xerxes, Herodotus says that
she commanded (^ys[XQvevs) the ships of the Coans,
i Herod, viii. 87, S8. k Pausan. iii. 11, § 3.
rather the result of stratagem than of accident,
though Herodotus does not undertake to decide this
question. He hints, however, that some misunder-
standing may have taken place between Artemisia
and Damasithymus at the Hellespont.
The manner of Artemisia's escape was noticed by
Xerxes from his throne on the shore. He greatly
applauded her prowess, imagining that the vessel
she had sunk was one of the enemy's. It was on
this occasion that he uttered the reproachful words,
" My men have become women, and my women
men." After the battle, Xerxes again consulted
Artemisia, and was advised by her to return, leaving
the command of the expedition to Mardonius. He
afterwards sent her to Ephesus, giving her charge
of some illegitimate children who had accompanied
him to Greece.1
In the Icon Persike erected at Sparta from the
spoils of the Persians, the statue of Artemisia in
white marble was thought worthy to be associated
with that of Mardonius and other Persians.1'
Prom the high esteem in which the Garian queen
was held by Xerxes, it is to be inferred that he
found her a convenient instrument wherewith to
subdue the Hellenic and mixed barbarian races in
Caria and the adjacent islands, and gradually to
bring them under one common despotism.
In speaking of the contingent which she con-
tributed to the fleet of Xerxes, Herodotus says that
she commanded (^ys[XQvevs) the ships of the Coans,
i Herod, viii. 87, S8. k Pausan. iii. 11, § 3.