the "Stadion," which was exactly a stade long.

(2) Peltasts, i.e. light infantry armed with the "pelta" or light
shield, instead of the heavy {aspis} of the hoplite or heavy
infantry soldiers.

On the seventeenth day after the incursion above mentioned Thrasylus
sailed to Ephesus. He disembarked his troops in two divisions, his heavy
infantry in the neighbourhood of Mount Coressus; his cavalry, peltasts,
and marines, with the remainder of his force, near the marsh on the
other side of the city. At daybreak he pushed forward both divisions.
The citizens of Ephesus, on their side, were not slow to protect
themselves. They had to aid them the troops brought up by Tissaphernes,
as well as two detachments of Syracusans, consisting of the crews of
their former twenty vessels and those of five new vessels which had
opportunely arrived quite recently under Eucles, the son of Hippon,
and Heracleides, the son of Aristogenes, together with two Selinuntian
vessels. All these several forces first attacked the heavy infantry
near Coressus; these they routed, killing about one hundred of them, and
driving the remainder down into the sea. They then turned to deal with
the second division on the marsh. Here, too, the Athenians were put to
flight, and as many as three hundred of them perished. On this spot the
Ephesians erected a trophy, and another at Coressus. The valour of the
Syracusans and Selinuntians had been so conspicuous that the citizens
presented many of them, both publicly and privately, with prizes for
distinction in the field, besides offering the right of residence in
their city with certain immunities to all who at any time might wish to
live there. To the Selinuntians, indeed, as their own city had lately
been destroyed, they offered full citizenship.

The Athenians, after picking up their dead under a truce, set sail
for Notium, and having there buried the slain, continued their voyage
towards Lesbos and the Hellespont. Whilst lying at anchor in the harbour
of Methymna, in that island, they caught sight of the Syracusan vessels,
five-and-twenty in number, coasting along from Ephesus. They put out to
sea to attack them, and captured four ships with their crews, and chased
the remainder back to Ephesus. The prisoners were sent by Thrasylus to
Athens, with one exception. This was an Athenian, Alcibiades, who was a
cousin and fellow-exile of Alcibiades. Him Thrasylus released. (3) From
Methymna Thrasylus set s