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[8] After this, advancing against the Athenians who had found refuge in Sestus, he took the city but let the Athenians depart under a truce. Then he sailed at once to Samos with his troops and himself began the siege of the city, but Gylippus, who with a flotilla had fought in aid of the Syracusans in Sicily,1 he dispatched to Sparta to take there both the booty and with it fifteen hundred talents of silver.

1 Cp. chaps. 7; 8; 28 ff.

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