lcibiades, who was moreover in bad odour in the camp, sailed away with
a single trireme to his private fortress in the Chersonese.

After this Conon, in obedience to a decree of the Athenian people,
set sail from Andros with the twenty vessels under his command in that
island to Samos, and took command of the whole squadron. To fill the
place thus vacated by Conon, Phanosthenes was sent to Andros with four
ships. That captain was fortunate enough to intercept and capture
two Thurian ships of war, crews and all, and these captives were all
imprisoned by the Athenians, with the exception of their leader Dorieus.
He was the Rhodian, who some while back had been banished from Athens
and from his native city by the Athenians, when sentence of death was
passed upon him and his family. This man, who had once enjoyed the
right of citizenship among them, they now took pity on and released him
without ransom.

When Conon had reached Samos he found the armament in a state of great
despondency. Accordingly his first measure was to man seventy ships with
their full complement, instead of the former hundred and odd vessels.
With this squadron he put to sea accompanied by the other generals,
and confined himself to making descents first at one point and then at
another of the enemy's territory, and to collecting plunder.

And so the year drew to its close: a year signalled further by an
invasion of Sicily by the Carthaginians, with one hundred and twenty
ships of war and a land force of one hundred and twenty thousand men,
which resulted in the capture of Agrigentum. The town was finally
reduced to famine after a siege of seven months, the invaders having
previously been worsted in battle and forced to sit down before its
walls for so long a time.

VI

B.C. 406. In the following year--the year of the evening eclipse of the
moon, and the burning of the old temple of Athena (1) at Athens (2)--the
Lacedaemonians sent out Callicratidas to replace Lysander, whose period
of office had now expired. (3) Lysander, when surrendering the squadron
to his successor, spoke of himself as the winner of a sea fight, which
had left him in undisputed mastery of the sea, and with this boast
he handed over the ships to Callicratidas, who retorted, "If you will
convey the fleet from Ephesus, keeping Samos (4) on your right" (that
is, past where the Athenian navy lay), "and hand it over to me at
Miletus, I will admit that you are master of the sea.