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79.
The confederates and Astyochus, aware of
these murmurs, had already decided in council to fight a decisive battle; and when the news reached them of the disturbance at Samos, they put to sea
with all their ships, one hundred and ten in number, and ordering the
Milesians to move by land upon Mycale, set sail thither.
[2]
The Athenians with the eighty-two ships from Samos were at the moment lying
at Glauce in Mycale, a point where Samos approaches near to the continent; and seeing the Peloponnesian fleet sailing against them, retired into
Samos, not thinking themselves numerically strong enough to stake their all
upon a battle.
[3]
Besides, they had notice from Miletus of the wish of the enemy to engage,
and were expecting to be joined from the Hellespont by Strombichides, to
whom a messenger had been already despatched, with the ships that had gone
from Chios to Abydos.
[4]
The Athenians accordingly withdrew to Samos, and the Peloponnesians put in
at Mycale, and encamped with the land forces of the Milesians and the people
of the neighbourhood.
[5]
The next day they were about to sail against Samos, when tidings reached
them of the arrival of Strombichides with the squadron from the Hellespont,
upon which they immediately sailed back to Miletus.
[6]
The Athenians, thus reinforced, now in their turn sailed against Miletus
with a hundred and eight ships, wishing to fight a decisive battle, but as
no one put out to meet them, sailed back to Samos.
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