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11.
After this they separated, and the Athenians,
detaching a sufficient number of ships to blockade those of the enemy,
anchored with the rest at the islet adjacent, upon which they proceeded to
encamp, and sent to Athens for reinforcements;
[2]
the Peloponnesians having been joined on the day after the battle by the
Corinthians, who came to help the ships, and by the other inhabitants in the
vicinity not long afterwards.
These saw the difficulty of keeping guard in a desert place, and in their
perplexity at first thought of burning the ships, but finally resolved to
haul them up on shore and sit down and guard them with their land forces,
until a convenient opportunity for escaping should present itself.
Agis also, on being informed of the disaster, sent them a Spartan of the
name of Thermon.
[3]
The Lacedaemonians first received the news of the fleet having put out from
the Isthmus, Alcamenes having been ordered by the Ephors to send off a
horseman when this took place, and immediately resolved to despatch their
own five vessels under Chalcideus, and Alcibiades with him.
But while they were full of this resolution came the second news of the
fleet having taken refuge in Spiraeum; and disheartened at their first step in the Ionian war proving a failure,
they laid aside the idea of sending the ships from their own country, and
even wished to recall some that had already sailed.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XIX
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), E´PHORI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CORINTHUS
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