51.
The Corinthians, who had the first view of these vessels, suspecting that they were
Athenian1 and that there were more of them than they saw, were beginning to retreat.
[2]
The Corcyraeans, owing to their position, could not see them,
and they wondered why the
Corinthians rowed astern.
At length some of them who spied the advancing fleet exclaimed, 'Yonder are ships
coming up;'
and then the Corcyraeans, as it was getting dark, likewise retired, and the Corinthians
turned about and sailed away.
[3]
Thus the two fleets separated after a battle which lasted until nightfall.
[4]
The twenty ships which came from Athens under the command of Glaucon the son of
Leagrus, and Andocides the son of Leogoras, made their way through the wrecks and
corpses and sailed into the Corcyraean station at Leucimnè almost as soon as
they were sighted.
[5]
At first in the darkness the Corcyraeans feared that they were enemies, but they soon
recognized them
and the Athenian vessels came to anchor.
1 The two fleets separate.
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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