25.
At the end of the same winter Salaethus the Lacedaemonian was despatched in a
trireme1 from Lacedaemon to Mytilenè.
He sailed to Pyrrha, and thence, proceeding on foot, made his way, by the channel of a
torrent at a place where the line of the Athenian wall could be crossed, undiscovered
into Mytilenè.
He told the government that there was to be an invasion of Attica, and that
simultaneously the forty ships which were coming to their assistance would arrive at
Lesbos; he himself had been sent in advance to bring the news and take charge of
affairs.
[2]
Whereupon the Mytilenaeans recovered their spirits, and were less disposed to make
terms with the Athenians.
So the winter ended, and with it the fourth year in the Peloponnesian War of which
Thucydides wrote the history.
1 Salaethus is sent from Lacedaemon to Mytilenè, with the news that help is on the way.
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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