20.
About the same time the twenty Peloponnesian ships which had been chased into Piraeum,1 and were now blockaded by a like number of Athenian ships, made a sally, defeated the Athenians, and took four ships; they then got away to Cenchreae, and once more prepared to sail to Chios and Ionia. At Cenchreae they were met by Astyochus, the admiral from Lacedaemon, to whom the whole of the Peloponnesian navy was about to be entrusted.
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By this time the land-forces of Clazomenae and Erythrae2 had retired from Teos, and Tissaphernes,3 who had led a second army thither in person and overthrown what was left of the Athenian fort, had retired also. Not long after his departure, Diomedon arrived with ten ships, and made an agreement with the Teians, who promised to receive the Athenians as well as the Peloponnesians. He then sailed to Erae, which he attacked without success, and departed.
1 Escape of the ships blockaded at Piraeum. They prepare to start for Chios.
2 Cp. 8.16 init.; 19 fin.
3 Teos consents to neutrality.
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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