) where they seized hold of various traders and pilots and
deposited them bodily on board ship. So the Spartan admiral carried out
his programme.

(10) Lit. "five or six stades."

(11) See Hartman, "Anal. Xen." pp. 365, 366.

(12) See Grote ("H. G." ix. 523): cf. Thuc. ii. 94, the attempt of
Brasidas on the port of Megara. For the wealth of Piraeus, Grote
"H. G." ix. 351. See below, "Pol. Ath." i. 17; "Rev." iii. 13.

As to the Athenians, meanwhile, some of them who got wind of what was
happening rushed from indoors outside to see what the commotion meant,
others from the streets home to get their arms, and others again were
off to the city with the news. The whole of Athens rallied to the rescue
at that instant, heavy infantry and cavalry alike, the apprehension
being that Piraeus was taken. But the Spartan sent off the captured
vessels to Aegina, telling off three or four of his triremes to convoy
them thither; with the rest he followed along the coast of Attica, and
emerging in seemingly innocent fashion from the harbour, captured
a number of fishing smacks, and passage boats laden with passengers
crossing to Piraeus from the islands; and finally, on reaching Sunium
he captured some merchantmen laden with corn or other merchandise. After
these performances he sailed back to Aegina, where he sold his prizes,
and with the proceeds was able to provide his troops with a month's
pay, and for the future was free to cruise about and make what reprisals
chance cast in his way. By such a procedure he was able to support a
full quota of mariners on board his squadron, and procured to himself
the prompt and enthusiastic service of his troops.

B.C. 388-387. Antalcidas had now returned from the Persian court with
Tiribazus. The negotiations had been successful. He had secured the
alliance of the Persian king and his military co-operation in case the
Athenians and their allies refused to abide by the peace which the king
dictated. But learning that his second in command, Nicolochus, was being
blockaded with his fleet by Iphicrates and Diotimus (13) in Abydos, he
set off at once by land for that city. Being come thither he took the
fleet one night and put out to sea, having first spread a story that he
had invitations from a party in Calchedon; but as a matter of fact
he came to anchorage in Percote and there kept quiet. Meanwhile the
Athenian forces under Demaenetus and Dionysius and Leontichus and
Phanias had got