case later on in the war in Cyprus, one at the head
of the fleet, the other of the army; it is probable that the
historian from whom Diodorus copied, viz. Ephorus,
recognised the same division of leadership in the Egyptian
campaign.

The allies raised the blockade of the White Wall as soon as he
entered the Delta, and hastened to attack him; but they had lost their
opportunity. Defeated in a desperate encounter, in which Charitimides
was killed and Inaros wounded in the thigh, they barricaded themselves
within the large island of Prosopitis, about the first fortnight in
January of the year 455, and there sustained a regular siege for the
space of eighteen months. At the end of that time Megabyzos succeeded in
turning an arm of the river, which left their fleet high and dry, and,
rather than allow it to fall into his hands, they burned their vessels,
whereupon he gave orders to make the final assault. The bulk of the
Athenian auxiliaries perished in that day's attack, the remainder
withdrew with Inaros into the fortified town of Byblos, where Megabyzos,
unwilling to prolong a struggle with a desperate enemy, permitted them
to capitulate on honourable terms. Some of them escaped and returned to
Cyrene, from whence they took ship to their own country; but the main
body, to the number of 6000, were carried away to Susa by Megabyzos in
order to receive the confirmation of the treaty which he had concluded.
As a crowning stroke of misfortune, a reinforcement of fifty Athenian
triremes, which at this juncture entered the Mendesian mouth of the
Nile, was surrounded by the Phoenician fleet, and more than half of them
destroyed. The fall of Prosopitis brought the rebellion to an end.*

* The accounts of these events given by Ctesias and
Thucydides are complementary, and, in spite of their
brevity, together form a whole which must be sufficiently
near the truth. That of Ephorus, preserved in Diodorus, is
derived from an author who shows partiality to the
Athenians, and who passes by everything not to their honour,
while he seeks to throw the blame for the final disaster on
the cowardice of the Egyptians. The summary of Aristodemus
comes directly from that of Thucydides.

The nomes of the Delta were restored to order, and, as was often
customary in Oriental kingdoms, the vanquished petty princes or their
children were reinvested in their hereditary fiefs; even Liby