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23.
In the meantime Astyochus, the Lacedaemonian
admiral, set sail from Cenchreae with four ships, as he had intended, and
arrived at Chios.
On the third day after his arrival the Athenian ships, twenty-five in
number, sailed to Lesbos under Diomedon and Leon, who had lately arrived
with a reinforcement of ten ships from Athens.
[2]
Late in the same day Astyochus put to sea, and taking one Chian vessel with
him sailed to Lesbos to render what assistance he could.
Arrived at Pyrrha, and from thence the next day at Eresus, he there learned
that Mitylene had been taken, almost without a blow, by the Athenians,
[3]
who had sailed up and unexpectedly put into the harbour, had beaten the
Chian ships, and landing and defeating the troops opposed to them, had
become masters of the city.
Informed of this by the Eresians and the Chian ships, which had been left
with Eubulus at Methymna and had fled upon the capture of Mitylene, and
three of which he now fell in with,
[4]
one having been taken by the Athenians, Astyochus did not go on to
Mitylene, but raised and armed Eresus, and sending the heavy infantry from
his own ships by land under Eteonicus to Antissa and Methymna, himself
proceeded along shore thither with the ships which he had with him and with
the three Chians, in the hope that the Methymnians upon seeing them would be
encouraged to persevere in their revolt.
[5]
As, however, everything went against him in Lesbos, he took up his own
force and sailed back to Chios; the land forces on board, which were to have gone to the Hellespont, being
also conveyed back to their different cities.
After this six of the allied Peloponnesian ships at Cenchreae joined the
forces at Chios.
[6]
The Athenians, after restoring matters to their old state in Lesbos, set
sail from thence and took Polichna, the place that the Clazomenians were
fortifying on the continent, and carried the inhabitants back to their town
upon the island, except the authors of the revolt, who withdrew to Daphnus; and thus Clazomenae became once more Athenian.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CIII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XVIII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
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