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102.
Meanwhile the warnings of the fire-signals
and the sudden increase in the number of fires on the enemy's shore informed
the eighteen Athenian ships at Sestos of the approach of the Peloponnesian
fleet.
That very night they set sail in haste just as they were, and hugging the
shore of the Chersonese, coasted along to Elaeus, in order to sail out into
the open sea away from the fleet of the enemy.
[2]
After passing unobserved the sixteen ships at Abydos, which had
nevertheless been warned by their approaching friends to be on the alert to
prevent their sailing out, at dawn they sighted the fleet of Mindarus, which
immediately gave chase.
All had not time to get away; the greater number however escaped to Imbros and Lemnos, while four of the
hindmost were overtaken off Elaeus.
[3]
One of these was stranded opposite to the temple of Protesilaus and taken
with its crew, two others without their crews; the fourth was abandoned on the shore of Imbros and burned by the enemy.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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