sentences:  Themistocles, before the battles of Artemisium and Salamis, tried to split the Ionians and Carians from the Persian coalition.He told them to come and be on his side or not to participate at the battles, but if they were bound down by too strong compulsion to be able to make revolt, when the battles begin, to be purposely slack.Plutarch in his work, The Parallel Lives, at The Life of Themistocles wrote that