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1 This account of the battle differs radically from that in Xen. Hell. 2.1.27-28, which is more credible.
2 Some eight miles down the Hellespont from Aegospotami.
3 Cp. chaps. 7; 8; 28 ff.
4 The σκυτάλη was a staff used for writing in code. The Lacedaemonians had two round staves of identical size, the one kept at Sparta, the other in possession of commanders abroad. A strip of paper was rolled slantwise around the staff and the dispatch written lengthwise on it; when unrolled the dispatch was unintelligible, but rolled slantwise round the commander's skytale it could be read. Even if Gylippus had found the dispatch he could not have read it.
5 Called Cleandridas by Thucydides (Thuc. 6.93.2).
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