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Contents of the Thirteenth Book of Diodorus
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In Greece Dorieus the Rhodian, the admiral of the triremes
from Italy, after he had quelled the tumult in
Rhodes,1 set sail for the Hellespont, being eager to join Mindarus; for the latter was
lying at Abydus and collecting from every quarter the
ships of the Peloponnesian alliance.
[2]
And when Dorieus was
already in the neighbourhood of Sigeium in the Troad,
the Athenians who were at Sestus, learning that he was sailing along the coast, put out against
him with their ships, seventy-four in all.
[3]
Dorieus held to his
course for a time in ignorance of what was happening; but when he observed the great strength
of the fleet he was alarmed, and seeing no other way to save his force he put in at Dardanus.
[4]
Here he disembarked his soldiers and took over the troops who
were guarding the city, and then he speedily got in a vast supply of missiles and stationed his
soldiers both on the fore-parts of the ships and in advantageous positions on the land.
[5]
The Athenians, sailing in at full speed, set to work hauling
the ships away from the shore, and they were wearing down the enemy, having crowded them on
every side by their superior numbers.
[6]
When Mindarus, the
Peloponnesian admiral, learned of the situation, he speedily put out from Abydus with his entire fleet and sailed to the Dardanian
Promontory2 with eighty-four ships to
the aid of the fleet of Dorieus; and the land army of Pharnabazus was also there, supporting
the Lacedaemonians.
[7]
When the
fleets came near one another, both sides drew up the triremes for battle; Mindarus, who had
ninety-seven ships, stationed the Syracusans on his left wing, while he himself took command of
the right; as for the Athenians, Thrasybulus led the right wing and Thrasyllus the other.
[8]
After the forces had made ready in this fashion, their
commanders raised the signal for battle and the trumpeters at a single word of command began to
sound the attack; and since the rowers showed no lack of eagerness and the pilots managed their
helms with skill, the contest which ensued was an amazing spectacle.
[9]
For whenever the triremes would drive forward to ram, at that moment the pilots, at
just the critical instant, would turn their ships so effectively that the blows were made ram
on.
[10]
As for the marines, whenever they would see their own
ships borne along with their sides to the triremes of the enemy, they would be terror-stricken,
despairing of their lives; but whenever the pilots, employing the skill of practice, would
frustrate the attack, they would in turn be overjoyed and elated in their hopes.
1 Cp. chap. 38.5; Thuc. 8.44.
2 Some ten miles inside the Hellespont on the Asian side.
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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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), RHODUS
- Smith's Bio, Alcibi'ades
- Smith's Bio, Dorieus
- Smith's Bio, Mi'ndarus
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- Thucydides, Histories, 8.44
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