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“At first the wave of Persia’s fleet
rolled firm, but next, as our ships
jammed into the narrows and
no one could help any other and
our own bronze teeth bit into
our own strakes,
whole oarbanks shattered.”
― Alan Shapiro, The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays