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While these events were taking place Alcibiades and Thrasybulus,1 after fortifying Lampsacus, left a strong garrison in that place and themselves sailed with their force to Theramenes, who was laying waste Chalcedon with seventy ships and five thousand soldiers. And when the armaments had been brought together into one place they threw a wooden stockade about the city from sea to sea.2

1 Thrasyllus (cp. 64.1, first note.

2 "From sea to sea," i.e. from Bosporus to Propontis.

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