English to Romanian Science Geography

"Themistocles argued that within **the confined space** of the Salamis narrows, the Persians both would lack room to maneuver and could not employ the full extent of their fleet - allowing the outnumbered though heavier Greek ships to nullify their enemy's vast numerical superiority.

In such **confined waters**, the less-experienced Greek sailors had little worry about being outflanked and surrounded by skilled crews in sleek triremes, and so could sail out to battle, ship to ship, in massed order, seeking to ram their own stouter vessels against the first ranks of the lighter Persian, Ionian, and Phoenician fleet.

Second, Xerxes ordered his forces, while it was still night, to sail up the channel between Salamis and the Attic mainland - ensuring that his crews received no sleep or food, while nullifying their numerical superiority **in the confined waters**."

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