116.
When the Athenians heard of the insurrection they sailed for Samos with sixty ships.
But1 of this number they sent away sixteen, some towards Caria to keep a look out for
the Phoenician fleet, others to summon aid from Chios and Lesbos.
With the remaining forty-four ships they fought at sea under the command of Pericles
and nine others, near the island of Tragia, against seventy Samian vessels,
all sailing
from Miletus,of which twenty were transports;
the Athenians gained the victory.
[2]
After receiving a reinforcement of forty ships from Athens and of twenty-five from
Chios and Lesbos
they disembarked, and their infantry proving superior, invested the
city with three walls; they also blockaded it by sea.
[3]
At the same time Pericles took sixty ships of the blockading force and sailed hastily
towards Caunus in Caria, news having arrived that a Phoenician fleet was approaching;
Stesagoras and others had already gone with five ships from Samos to fetch it.
1 The Athenians defeat the Samians at sea.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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