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86.
While the Athenians were thus detained in
Crete, the Peloponnesians in Cyllene got ready for battle, and coasted along
to Panormus in Achaea, where their land army had come to support them.
[2]
Phormio also coasted along to Molycrian Rhium, and anchored outside it with
twenty ships, the same as he had fought with before.
[3]
This Rhium was friendly to the Athenians.
The other, in Peloponnese, lies opposite to it; the sea between them is about three-quarters of a mile broad, and forms the
mouth of the Crissaean gulf.
[4]
At this, the Achaean Rhium, not far off Panormus, where their army lay, the
Peloponnesians now cast anchor with seventy-seven ships, when they saw the
Athenians do so.
[5]
For six or seven days they remained opposite each other, practising and
preparing for the battle; the one resolved not to sail out of the Rhia into the open sea, for fear of
the disaster which had already happened to them, the other not to sail into
the straits, thinking it advantageous to the enemy to fight in the narrows.
[6]
At last Cnemus and Brasidas and the rest of the Peloponnesian commanders,
being desirous of bringing on a battle as soon as possible, before
reinforcements should arrive from Athens, and noticing that the men were
most of them cowed by the previous defeat and out of heart for the business,
first called them together and encouraged them as follows:—
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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