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4.
When the Athenians sailed in not long after
and saw how things stood, the generals delivered their orders, and upon the
Mitylenians refusing to obey, commenced hostilities.
[2]
The Mitylenians, thus compelled to go to war without notice and unprepared,
at first sailed out with their fleet and made some show of fighting, a
little in front of the harbor; but being driven back by the Athenian ships, immediately offered to treat
with the commanders, wishing, if possible, to get the ships away for the
present upon any tolerable terms.
[3]
The Athenian commanders accepted their offers, being themselves fearful
that they might not be able to cope with the whole of Lesbos;
[4]
and an armistice having been concluded, the Mitylenians sent to Athens one
of the informers, already repentant of his conduct, and others with him, to
try to persuade the Athenians of the innocence of their intentions and to
get the fleet recalled.
[5]
In the meantime, having no great hope of a favorable answer from Athens,
they also sent off a trireme with envoys to Lacedaemon, unobserved by the
Athenian fleet which was anchored at Malea to the north of the town.
[6]
While these envoys, reaching Lacedaemon after
a difficult journey across the open sea, were negotiating for succors being
sent them,
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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