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Accordingly they resolved to relieve it the
next morning.
Meanwhile Phrynichus, the Athenian commander, had received precise
intelligence of the fleet from Leros, and when his colleagues expressed a
wish to keep the sea and fight it out, flatly refused either to stay himself
or to let them or any one else do so if he could help it.
Where they could hereafter contend, after full and undisturbed preparation,
with an exact knowledge of the number of the enemy's fleet and of the force
which they could oppose to him, he would never allow the reproach of
disgrace to drive him into a risk that was unreasonable.
It was no disgrace for an Athenian fleet to retreat when it suited them: