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41.
In the meantime news came from Caunus of the
arrival of the twenty-seven ships with the Lacedaemonian commissioners; and Astyochus postponing everything to the duty of convoying a fleet of
that importance, in order to be more able to command the sea, and to the
safe conduct of the Lacedaemonians sent as spies over his behaviour, at once
gave up going to Chios and set sail for Caunus.
[2]
As he coasted along he landed at the Meropid Cos and sacked the city, which
was unfortified and had been lately laid in ruins by an earthquake, by far
the greatest in living memory, and, as the inhabitants had fled to the
mountains, overran the country and made booty of all it contained, letting
go, however, the free men.
[3]
From Cos arriving in the night at Cnidus he was constrained by the
representations of the Cnidians not to disembark the sailors, but to sail as
he was straight against the twenty Athenian vessels, which with Charminus,
one of the commanders at Samos, were on the watch for the very twentyseven
ships from Peloponnese which Astyochus was himself sailing to join;
[4]
the Athenians in Samos having heard from Melos of their approach, and
Charminus being on the look-out off Syme, Chalce, Rhodes and Lycia, as he
now heard that they were at Caunus.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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