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HELLENICA

BOOK I

I

B.C. 411. To follow the order of events (1). A few days later
Thymochares arrived from Athens with a few ships, when another sea fight
between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians at once took place, in which
the former, under the command of Agesandridas, gained the victory.

(1) Lit. "after these events"; but is hard to conjecture to what
events the author refers. For the order of events and the
connection between the closing chapter of Thuc. viii. 109, and the
opening words of the "Hellenica," see introductory remarks above.
The scene of this sea-fight is, I think, the Hellespont.

Another short interval brings us to a morning in early winter, when
Dorieus, the son of Diagoras, was entering the Hellespont with fourteen
ships from Rhodes at break of day. The Athenian day-watch descrying him,
signalled to the generals, and they, with twenty sail, put out to sea to
attack him. Dorieus made good his escape, and, as he shook himself free
of the narrows, (2) ran his triremes aground off Rhoeteum. When the
Athenians had come to close quarters, the fighting commenced, and was
sustained at once from ships and shore, until at length the Athenians
retired to their main camp at Madytus, having achieved nothing.

(2) Lit. "as he opened" {os enoige}. This is still a mariner's phrase
in modern Greek, if I am rightly informed.

Meanwhile Mindarus, while sacrificing to Athena at Ilium, had observed
the battle. He at once hastened to the sea, and getting his own triremes
afloat, sailed out to pick up the ships with Dorieus. The Athenians on
their side put out to meet him, and engaged him off Abydos. From early
morning till the afternoon the fight was kept up close to the shore.
(3) Victory and defeat hung still in even balance, when Alcibiades
came sailing up with eighteen ships. Thereupon the Peloponnesians
fled towards Abydos, where, however, Pharnabazus brought them timely
assistance. (4) Mounted on horseback, he pushed forward into the sea as
far as his horse would let him, doing battle himself, and encouraging
his troopers and the infantry alike to play their parts. Then the
Peloponnesians, ranging their ships in close-packed order, and drawing
up their battle line in proximity to the land, kept up the fight. At
length the Athenians, having captured thirty of the enemy's vessels
without their crews, and having recovered those of the