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94.
Meanwhile fire signals were raised to alarm
Athens, and a panic ensued there as serious as any that occurred during the
war.
The idea in the city was that the enemy had already sailed into Piraeus; in Piraeus it was thought that they had taken Salamis and might at any
moment arrive in the port; as indeed might easily have been done if their hearts had been a little
firmer; certainly no wind would have prevented them.
[2]
As soon as day broke the Athenians assembled in full force, launched their
ships, and embarking in haste and uproar went with the fleet to Salamis,
while their soldiery mounted guard in Piraeus.
[3]
The Peloponnesians, on becoming aware of the coming relief, after they had
overrun most of Salamis, hastily sailed off with their plunder and captives
and the three ships from Fort Budorum to Nisaea; the state of their ships also causing them some anxiety, as it was a long
while since they had been launched, and they were not water-tight.
Arrived at Megara, they returned back on foot to Corinth.
[4]
The Athenians finding them no longer at Salamis, sailed back themselves; and after this made arrangements for guarding Piraeus more diligently in
future, by closing the harbors, and by other suitable precautions.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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