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Herodotus reports that there were 378 triremes in the Allied fleet, and then breaks the numbers down by city state ( as indicated in the table ).

However, his numbers for the individual contingents only add up to 366.

He does not explicitly say that all 378 fought at Salamis (" All of these came to the war providing triremes ... The total number of ships ... was three hundred and seventy-eight "), and he also says that the Aeginetans " had other manned ships, but they guarded their own land with these and fought at Salamis with the thirty most seaworthy ".

Thus it has been supposed that the difference between the numbers is accounted for a garrison of 12 ships left at Aegina.

According to Herodotus, two more ships defected from the Persians to the Greeks, one before Artemisium and one before Salamis, so the total complement at Salamis would have been 368 ( or 380 ).