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A leader broke a gag rule about this island by delivering an elegy (-5[1])in the persona of (15[1])a mad herald, and later misquoted the Catalog of Ships to support his city’s ownership of it. A depiction of accounting on the Darius Vase is corroborated by a tablet from this island, the oldest surviving counting board. A cult on this island centered on a cave that the antisocial playwright Euripides fled to. Plutarch (-5[1])claims that Xanthippus’s dog swam to this island after old people were evacuated to it via a decree (15[1])preserved at (*) Troezen (“TREE-zen”). This island was held by Megara until Athens (10[1])seized it under Solon. In one account, a fleet entered a strait named for this island due to false intel from the slave Sicinnus. (10[1])A battle named for this island supposedly (10[1])occurred (10[1])the same day as (10[1])the Battle of Himera and fulfilled a prophecy about “wooden walls.” (10[2])For 10 points, what island names a naval battle where Themistocles (10[2])defeated Xerxes’s fleet? (10[1]0[2])■END■

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