69.
The forty Peloponnesian ships which had been sent to the aid of Lesbos, as they
fled1 through the open sea pursued by the Athenians2, were caught in a storm near Crete, and, making their way in a straggling
condition from Crete to the Peloponnesus, found at Cyllene thirteen Leucadian and
Ambraciot triremes, and Brasidas the son of Tellis, who had been sent
out as a commissioner to advise Alcidas.
[2]
The Lacedaemonians at home, after the failure of their attempt on Lesbos, had
determined to increase their navy and sail to Corcyra, which was in a state of
revolution.
The Athenian squadron at Naupactus consisted of twelve ships only, and the
Lacedaemonians wanted to reach the island before any more vessels could arrive from
Athens.
Brasidas and Alcidas made their preparations accordingly.
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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