6.
The Athenians, greatly encouraged by the inactivity of their adversaries, summoned
their1 allies, who came all the more readily because they saw that the Lesbians
displayed no energy.
They then anchored the fleet round the south of the city, and having fortified two
camps, one on either side of it, they established a blockade of both the harbours.
[2]
Thus they excluded the Mytilenaeans from the sea.
They likewise held the country in the immediate neighbourhood of their two camps; but
the Mytilenaeans and the other Lesbians, who had now taken up arms, were masters of the
rest of the island.
At Malea the Athenians had, not a camp, but a station for their ships and for their
market.
1 The Athenians blockade Mytilenè by 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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