77.
The whole place was in an uproar; the people dreaded their enemies within the city no
less1 than the Peloponnesian fleet.
They hastened to equip sixty ships, and as fast as they were manned sent them out
against the Peloponnesians, although the Athenians entreated to be allowed to sail out
first, leaving them to follow as soon as they had got their fleet together.
[2]
But when in this straggling fashion their ships approached the enemy, two of them at
once deserted; in others the crews were fighting with one another, and everything was in
disorder.
[3]
The Peloponnesians, seeing the confusion, employed twenty ships only against the
Corcyraeans, and opposed the remainder of their fleet to the twelve Athenian ships, of
which two were the Salaminia and Paralus.
1 Confused battle of the Corcyraeans and Athenians against the Peloponnesians.
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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