with hands folded, whilst the vessels dried and underwent repairs.
Alcibiades, being informed that Thrasybulus had come south of the
Hellespont and was fortifying Phocaea, sailed across to join him,
leaving his own pilot Antiochus in command of the fleet, with orders
not to attack Lysander's fleet. Antiochus, however, was tempted to leave
Notium and sail into the harbour of Ephesus with a couple of ships, his
own and another, past the prows of Lysander's squadron. The Spartan at
first contented himself with launching a few of his ships, and started
in pursuit of the intruder; but when the Athenians came out with other
vessels to assist Antiochus, he formed his whole squadron into line of
battle, and bore down upon them, whereupon the Athenians followed suit,
and getting their remaining triremes under weigh at Notium, stood out to
sea as fast as each vessel could clear the point. (6) Thus it befell in
the engagement which ensued, that while the enemy was in due order, the
Athenians came up in scattered detachments and without concert, and in
the end were put to flight with the loss of fifteen ships of war. Of the
crews, indeed, the majority escaped, though a certain number fell into
the hands of the enemy. Then Lysander collected his vessels, and having
erected a trophy on Cape Notium, sailed across to Ephesus, whilst the
Athenians retired to Samos.

(6) {os ekastos enoixen}, for this nautical term see above.

On his return to Samos a little later, Alcibiades put out to sea with
the whole squadron in the direction of the harbour of Ephesus. At the
mouth of the harbour he marshalled his fleet in battle order, and tried
to tempt the enemy to an engagement; but as Lysander, conscious of his
inferiority in numbers, refused to accept the challenge, he sailed
back again to Samos. Shortly after this the Lacedaemonians captured
Delphinium and Eion. (7)

(7) This should probably be Teos, in Ionia, in spite of the MSS.
{'Eiona}. The place referred to cannot at any rate be the well-
known Eion at the mouth of the Strymon in Thrace.

But now the news of the late disaster at Notium had reached the
Athenians at home, and in their indignation they turned upon Alcibiades,
to whose negligence and lack of self-command they attributed
the destruction of the ships. Accordingly they chose ten new
generals--namely Conon, Diomedon, Leon, Pericles, Erasinides,
Aristocrates, Archestratus, Protomachus, Thrasylus, and Aristogenes.
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