who was sailing out
from the line more towards the land in order to surround the enemy, in
the hollow and recess of the harbour, and killed him and destroyed the
ships accompanying him; after which they now chased the whole Athenian
fleet before them and drove them ashore.

Gylippus seeing the enemy's fleet defeated and carried ashore beyond
their stockades and camp, ran down to the breakwater with some of his
troops, in order to cut off the men as they landed and make it easier
for the Syracusans to tow off the vessels by the shore being friendly
ground. The Tyrrhenians who guarded this point for the Athenians, seeing
them come on in disorder, advanced out against them and attacked and
routed their van, hurling it into the marsh of Lysimeleia. Afterwards
the Syracusan and allied troops arrived in greater numbers, and the
Athenians fearing for their ships came up also to the rescue and engaged
them, and defeated and pursued them to some distance and killed a few of
their heavy infantry. They succeeded in rescuing most of their ships
and brought them down by their camp; eighteen however were taken by the
Syracusans and their allies, and all the men killed. The rest the enemy
tried to burn by means of an old merchantman which they filled with
faggots and pine-wood, set on fire, and let drift down the wind which
blew full on the Athenians. The Athenians, however, alarmed for their
ships, contrived means for stopping it and putting it out, and checking
the flames and the nearer approach of the merchantman, thus escaped the
danger.

After this the Syracusans set up a trophy for the sea-fight and for the
heavy infantry whom they had cut off up at the lines, where they took
the horses; and the Athenians for the rout of the foot driven by the
Tyrrhenians into the marsh, and for their own victory with the rest of
the army.

The Syracusans had now gained a decisive victory at sea, where until now
they had feared the reinforcement brought by Demosthenes, and deep,
in consequence, was the despondency of the Athenians, and great their
disappointment, and greater still their regret for having come on the
expedition. These were the only cities that they had yet encountered,
similar to their own in character, under democracies like themselves,
which had ships and horses, and were of considerable magnitude. They had
been unable to divide and bring them over by holding out the prospect
of changes in their governments, or to crush the