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52.
In the first days of the next summer there
was an eclipse of the sun at the time of new moon, and in the early part of
the same month an earthquake.
[2]
Meanwhile, the Mitylenian and other Lesbian exiles set out, for the most
part from the continent, with mercenaries hired in Peloponnese, and others
levied on the spot, and took Rhoeteum, but restored it without injury on the
receipt of two thousand Phocaean staters.
[3]
After this they marched against Antandrus and took the town by treachery,
their plan being to free Antandrus and the rest of the Actaean towns,
formerly owned by Mitylene but now held by the Athenians.
Once fortified there, they would have every facility for shipbuilding from
the vicinity of Ida and the consequent abundance of timber, and plenty of
other supplies, and might from this base easily ravage Lesbos, which was not
far off, and make themselves masters of the Aeolian towns on the
continent.While these were the schemes of
the exiles,
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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