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In Greece Thrasybulus,1 who
had been sent out by the Athenians with thirty ships and a strong force of hoplites as well as
a hundred horsemen, put in at Ephesus; and after
disembarking his troops at two points he launched assaults upon the city. The inhabitants came
out of the city against them and a fierce battle ensued; and since the entire populace of the
Ephesians joined in the fighting, four hundred Athenians were slain and the remainder
Thrasybulus2 took aboard
his ships and sailed off to Lesbos.
[2]
The Athenian generals who were in the neighbourhood of Cyzicus, sailing to Chalcedon,3 established there the fortress of Chrysopolis and left an
adequate force behind; and the officers in charge they ordered to collect a tenth from all
merchants sailing out of the Pontus.
[3]
After this they divided their forces and Theramenes was left behind with
fifty ships with which to lay siege to Chalcedon
and Byzantium, and Thrasybulus was sent to
Thrace, where he brought the cities in those regions
over to the Athenians.
[4]
And Alcibiades, after giving
Thrasybulus4 a separate
command5 with the thirty ships, sailed to the territory
held by Pharnabazus, and when they had conjointly laid waste a great amount of that territory,
they not only sated the soldiers with plunder but also themselves realized money from the
booty, since they wished to relieve the Athenian people of the property-taxes imposed for the
prosecution of the war.
[5]
When
the Lacedaemonians learned that all the armaments of the Athenians were in the region of the
Hellespont, they undertook a campaign against
Pylos, which the Messenians held with a garrison;
on the sea they had eleven ships, of which five were from Sicily and six were manned by their own citizens, while on land they had gathered
an adequate army, and after investing the fortress they began to wreak havoc both by land and
by sea.
[6]
As soon as the Athenian people learned of this they
dispatched to the aid of the besieged thirty ships and as general Anytus6 the son of Anthemion. Now
Anytus sailed out on his mission, but when he was unable to round Cape Malea because of storms
he returned to Athens. The people were so incensed
at this that they accused him of treason and brought him to trial; but Anytus, being in great
danger, saved his own life by the use of money, and he is reputed to have been the first
Athenian to have bribed a jury.
[7]
Meanwhile the Messenians in
Pylos held out for some time, awaiting aid from the
Athenians; but since the enemy kept launching successive assaults and of their own number some
were dying of wounds and others were reduced to sad straits for lack of food, they abandoned
the place under a truce. And so the Lacedaemonians became masters of Pylos, after the Athenians had held it fifteen years from the
time Demosthenes had fortified it.7
1 Thrasyllus, according to Xen. Hell. 1.2.6 ff. The account is resumed from the end of chapter 53.
2 Cp. sect. 1, first note.
3 On the Hellespont opposite Byzantium.
4 Cp. sect. 1, first note.
5 Editors have been troubled by ἀπολύσας, here translated as "give a separate command," by pressing the meaning of the word in the sense of "dismiss," whereas both Alcibiades and Thrasyllus were later engaged together in the raiding of Persian territory. But the word can also mean no more than "separate," as when a man "separates" (divorces) his wife. Xen. Hell. 1.2.15 ff. states that the troops of Alcibiades refused at first to join with those of Thrasyllus because the latter had just suffered defeat before Ephesus, but later agreed to the union of the two armies after the successful raids. What Alcibiades probably did was to send Thrasyllus ahead, and the generals operated separately for a time.
6 Later one of the accusers of Socrates.
7 Cp. Book 12.63.5.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EICO´STE
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CHRYSO´POLIS
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