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the Peloponnesians fled for

refuge first to the river Midius, and afterwards to Abydos. Only a few

ships were taken by the Athenians; as owing to the narrowness of the

Hellespont the enemy had not far to go to be in safety. Nevertheless

nothing could have been more opportune for them than this victory.

Up to this time they had feared the Peloponnesian fleet, owing to a

number of petty losses and to the disaster in Sicily; but they now

ceased to mistrust themselves or any longer to think their enemies

good for anything at sea. Meanwhile they took from the enemy eight

Chian vessels, five Corinthian, two Ambraciot, two Boeotian, one

Leucadian, Lacedaemonian, Syracusan, and Pellenian, losing fifteen

of their own. After setting up a trophy upon Point Cynossema, securing

the wrecks, and restoring to the enemy his dead under truce, they sent

off a galley to Athens with the news of their victory. The arrival

of this vessel with its unhoped-for good news, after the recent

disasters of Euboea, and in the revolution at Athens, gave fresh

courage to the Athenians, and caused them to believe that if they

put their shoulders to the wheel their cause might yet prevail.

 

On the fourth day after the sea-fight the Athenians in Sestos having

hastily refitted their ships sailed against Cyzicus, which had

revolted. Off Harpagium and Priapus they sighted at anchor the eight

vessels from Byzantium, and, sailing up and routing the troops on

shore, took the ships, and then went on and recovered the town of

Cyzicus, which was unfortified, and levied money from the citizens. In

the meantime the Peloponnesians sailed from Abydos to Elaeus, and

recovered such of their captured galleys as were still uninjured,

the rest having been burned by the Elaeusians, and sent Hippocrates

and Epicles to Euboea to fetch the squadron from that island.

 

About the same time Alcibiades returned with his thirteen ships from

Caunus and Phaselis to Samos, bringing word that he had prevented

the Phoenician fleet from joining the Peloponnesians, and had made

Tissaphernes more friendly to the Athenians than before. Alcibiades

now manned nine more ships, and levied large sums of money from the

Halicarnassians, and fortified Cos. After doing this and placing a

governor in Cos, he sailed back to Samos, autumn being now at hand.

Meanwhile Tissaphernes, upon hearing that the Peloponnesian fleet

had sailed from Miletus to the Hellespont, set off again back from

Aspendus, and made all sail for Ionia. While the Peloponnesians were

in the Hellespont, the Antandrians, a people of Aeolic extraction,

conveyed by land across Mount Ida some heavy infantry from Abydos, and

introduced them into the town; having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the

Persian lieutenant of Tissaphernes. This same Arsaces had, upon

pretence of a secret quarrel, invited the chief men of the Delians

to undertake military service (these were Delians who had settled at

Atramyttium after having been driven from their homes by the Athenians

for the sake of purifying Delos); and after drawing them out from

their town as his friends and allies, had laid wait for them at

dinner, and surrounded them and caused them to be shot down by his

soldiers. This deed made the Antandrians fear that he might some day

do them some mischief; and as he also laid upon them burdens too heavy

for them to bear, they expelled his garrison from their citadel.

 

Tissaphernes, upon hearing of this act of the Peloponnesians in

addition to what had occurred at Miletus and Cnidus, where his

garrisons had been also expelled, now saw that the breach between them

was serious; and fearing further injury from them, and being also

vexed to think that Pharnabazus should receive them, and in less

time and at less cost perhaps succeed better against Athens than he

had done, determined to rejoin them in the Hellespont, in order to

complain of the events at Antandros and excuse himself as best he

could in the matter of the Phoenician fleet and of the other charges

against him. Accordingly he went first to Ephesus and offered

sacrifice to Artemis… .

 

[When the winter after this summer is over the twenty-first year

of this war will be completed. ]

 

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