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15.
While the revolted places were all engaged in
fortifying and preparing for the war, news of Chios speedily reached Athens.
The Athenians thought the danger by which they were now menaced great and
unmistakable, and that the rest of their allies would not consent to keep
quiet after the secession of the greatest of their number.
In the consternation of the moment they at once took off the penalty
attaching to whoever proposed or put to the vote a proposal for using the
thousand talents which they had jealously avoided touching throughout the
whole war, and voted to employ them to man a large number of ships, and to
send off at once under Strombichides, son of Diotimus, the eight vessels,
forming part of the blockading fleet at Spiraeum, which had left the
blockade and had returned after pursuing and failing to overtake the vessels
with Chalcideus.
These were to be followed shortly afterwards by twelve more under
Thrasycles, also taken from the blockade.
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They also recalled the seven Chian vessels, forming part of their squadron
blockading the fleet in Spiraeum, and giving the slaves on board their
liberty, put the freemen in confinement, and speedily manned and sent out
ten fresh ships to blockade the Peloponnesians in the place of all those
that had departed, and decided to man thirty more.
Zeal was not wanting, and no effort was spared to send relief to Chios.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Harper's, Strombichĭdes
- Smith's Bio, Strombi'chides
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- Lysias, Against Agoratus, Lys. 13 13
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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- LSJ, Χίος
- LSJ, Χῖος
- LSJ, ἀγγελία
- LSJ, ἀναχωρ-έω
- LSJ, ἐφόρμ-ησις
- LSJ, ἐλεύθερος
- LSJ, ἐλευθερ-όω
- LSJ, γλίχομαι
- LSJ, καταδέω
- LSJ, συμπολιορκέω
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