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90.
Such was the exhortation of Phormio.
The Peloponnesians finding that the Athenians did not sail into the gulf
and the narrows, in order to lead them in whether they wished it or not, put
out at dawn, and forming four abreast, sailed inside the gulf in the
direction of their own country, the right wing leading as they had lain at
anchor.
[2]
In this wing were placed twenty of their best sailors; so that in the event of Phormio thinking that their object was Naupactus,
and coasting along thither to save the place, the Athenians might not be
able to escape their onset by getting outside their wing, but might be cut
off by the vessels in question.
[3]
As they expected, Phormio, in alarm for the place at that moment emptied of
its garrison, as soon as he saw them put out, reluctantly and hurriedly
embarked and sailed along shore; the Messenian land forces moving along also to support him.
[4]
The Peloponnesians seeing him coasting along with his ships in single file,
and by this inside the gulf and close in shore as they so much wished, at
one signal tacked suddenly and bore down in line at their best speed on the
Athenians, hoping to cut off the whole squadron.
[5]
The eleven leading vessels, however, escaped the Peloponnesian wing and its
sudden movement, and reached the more open water; but the rest were overtaken as they tried to run through, driven ashore and
disabled; such of the crews being slain as had not swum out of them.
[6]
Some of the ships the Peloponnesians lashed to their own, and towed off
empty; one they took with the men in it; others were just being towed off, when they were saved by the Messenians
dashing into the sea with their armor and fighting from the decks that they
had boarded.
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