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104.
Meanwhile the Lacedaemonian, Gylippus, and
the ships from Corinth were now off Leucas, intent upon going with all haste
to the relief of Sicily.
The reports that reached them being of an alarming kind, and all agreeing
in the falsehood that Syracuse was already completely invested, Gylippus
abandoned all hope of Sicily, and wishing to save Italy, rapidly crossed the
Ionian Sea to Tarentum with the Corinthian, Pythen, two Laconian, and two
Corinthian vessels, leaving the Corinthians to follow him after manning, in
addition to their own ten, two Leucadian and two Ambraciot ships.
[2]
From Tarentum Gylippus first went on an embassy to Thurii, and claimed anew
the rights of citizenship which his father had enjoyed; failing to bring over the townspeople, he weighed anchor and coasted along
Italy.
Opposite the Terinaean gulf he was caught by the wind which blows violently
and steadily from the north in that quarter, and was carried out to sea; and after experiencing very rough weather, remade Tarentum, where he hauled
ashore and refitted such of his ships as had suffered most from the tempest.
[3]
Nicias heard of his approach, but, like the Thurians, despised the scanty
number of his ships, and set down piracy as the only probable object of the
voyage, and so took no precautions for the present.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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