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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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During the same time Phormio, the Athenian general, with twenty triremes fell in with
forty-seven Lacedaemonian warships. And engaging them in battle he sank the flag-ship of the
enemy and put many of the rest of the ships out of action, capturing twelve together with their
crews and pursuing the remaining as far as the land.1 The Lacedaemonians, after having suffered defeat contrary to their
expectations, fled for safety with the ships which were left them to Patrae in Achaea. This
sea battle took place off Rhium,2 as it is called. The Athenians set up a trophy, dedicated a ship
to Poseidon at the strait,3 and then sailed off to the city of Naupactus, which was in their alliance.
1 Phormio's famous manoeuvring in this battle is described in Thuc. 2.83-84.
2 A cape at the entrance of the Corinthian Gulf.
3 The Greek, which reads "at the Isthmus," must be defective, for Thucydides' account makes it certain that the ship was dedicated near the scene of the battle (Thuc. 2.84.4); the emendation of Wurm would have the dedication made "to Poseidon the patron god of the Isthmus."
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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