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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 36 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 76 (search)
At this stage in the revolution, on the
fourth or fifth day after the removal of the men to the island, the
Peloponnesian ships arrived from Cyllene where they had been stationed since
their return from Ionia, fifty-three in number, still under the command of
Alcidas, but with Brasidas also on board as his adviser; and dropping anchor at Sybota, a harbor on the mainland, at daybreak made
sail for Corcyra.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 7, chapter 57 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 6 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 12 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 20 (search)
About the same time the twenty ships of the
Peloponnesians in Spiraeum, which we left chased to land and blockaded by an
equal number of Athenians, suddenly sallied out and defeated the blockading
squadron, took four of their ships, and sailing back to Cenchreae, prepared
again for the voyage to Chios and Ionia.
Here they were joined by Astyochus as high-admiral from Lacedaemon,
henceforth invested with the supreme command at sea.
The land forces now withdrawing from Teos, Tissaphernes repaired thither in
person with an army and completed the demolition of anything that was left
of the wall, and so departed.
Not long after his departure Diomedon arrived with ten Athenian ships, and
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 26 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 31 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 39 (search)
In the same winter the twenty-seven ships
equipped by the Lacedaemonians for Pharnabazus through the agency of the
Megarian Calligeitus, and the Cyzicene Timagoras, put out from Peloponnese
and sailed for Ionia about the time of the solstice, under the command of
Antisthenes, a Spartan.
With them the Lacedaemonians also sent eleven Spartans as advisers to
Astyochus; Lichas, son of Arcesilaus, being among the number.
Arrived at Miletus, their orders were to aid in generally superintending
the good conduct of the war; to send off the above ships or a greater or less number to the Hellespont
to Pharnabazus, if they thought proper, appointing Clearchus, son of
Ramphias, who sailed with them, to the comma
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 40 (search)
Meanwhile the Chians and Pedaritus,
undeterred by the backwardness of Astyochus, went on sending messengers
pressing him to come with all the fleet to assist them against their
besiegers, and not to leave the greatest of the allied states in Ionia to be
shut up by sea and overrun and pillaged by land.
There were more slaves at Chios than in any one other city except
Lacedaemon, and being also by reason of their numbers punished more
rigorously when they offended, most of them when they saw the Athenian
armament firmly established in the island with a fortified position,
immediately deserted to the enemy, and through their knowledge of the
country did the greatest mischief.