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Browsing named entities in Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. You can also browse the collection for Sestos or search for Sestos in all documents.
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 89 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 62 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 102 (search)
Meanwhile the warnings of the fire-signals
and the sudden increase in the number of fires on the enemy's shore informed
the eighteen Athenian ships at Sestos of the approach of the Peloponnesian
fleet.
That very night they set sail in haste just as they were, and hugging the
shore of the Chersonese, coasted along to Elaeus, in order to sail out into
the open sea away from the fleet of the enemy.
After passing unobserved the sixteen ships at Abydos, which had
nevertheless been warned by their approaching friends to be on the alert to
prevent their sailing out, at dawn they sighted the fleet of Mindarus, which
immediately gave chase.
All had not time to get away; the greater number h
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 104 (search)
After this they engaged in the following way.
The Athenians formed in column and sailed close along shore to Sestos; upon perceiving which the Peloponnesians put out from Abydos to meet them.
Realising that a battle was now imminent, both combatants extended their
flank; the Athenians along the Chersonese from Idacus to Arrhiani with seventy-six
ships; the Peloponnesians from Abydos to Dardanus with eighty-six.
The Peloponnesian right wing was occupied by the Syracusans, their left by
Mindarus in person with the best sailors in the navy; the Athenian left by Thrasyllus, their right by Thrasybulus, the other
commanders being in different parts of the fleet.
The Peloponnesians hastened to engage first, and outflanking with their
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 107 (search)
On the fourth day after the sea-fight the
Athenians in Sestos having hastily refitted their ships sailed against
Cyzicus, which had revolted.
Off Harpagium and Priapus they sighted at anchor the eight vessels from
Byzantium, and sailing up and routing the troops on shore, took the ships,
and then went on and recovered the town of Cyzicus, which was unfortified,
and levied money from the citizens.
In the meantime the Peloponesians sailed from Abydos to Elaeus, and
recovered such of their captured galleys as were still uninjured, the rest
having been burned by the Elaeusians, and sent Hippocrates and Epicles to
Euboea to fetch the squadron from that island.