et, might find out what was going on,
and the Lacedaemonians at once sent three Spartans to Corinth to haul
the ships as quickly as possible across the Isthmus from the other sea
to that on the side of Athens, and to order them all to sail to Chios,
those which Agis was equipping for Lesbos not excepted. The number of
ships from the allied states was thirty-nine in all.

Meanwhile Calligeitus and Timagoras did not join on behalf of
Pharnabazus in the expedition to Chios or give the money--twenty-five
talents--which they had brought with them to help in dispatching
a force, but determined to sail afterwards with another force by
themselves. Agis, on the other hand, seeing the Lacedaemonians bent upon
going to Chios first, himself came in to their views; and the allies
assembled at Corinth and held a council, in which they decided to sail
first to Chios under the command of Chalcideus, who was equipping the
five vessels in Laconia, then to Lesbos, under the command of Alcamenes,
the same whom Agis had fixed upon, and lastly to go to the Hellespont,
where the command was given to Clearchus, son of Ramphias. Meanwhile
they would take only half the ships across the Isthmus first, and let
those sail off at once, in order that the Athenians might attend less to
the departing squadron than to those to be taken across afterwards, as
no care had been taken to keep this voyage secret through contempt of
the impotence of the Athenians, who had as yet no fleet of any account
upon the sea. Agreeably to this determination, twenty-one vessels were
at once conveyed across the Isthmus.

They were now impatient to set sail, but the Corinthians were not
willing to accompany them until they had celebrated the Isthmian
festival, which fell at that time. Upon this Agis proposed to them to
save their scruples about breaking the Isthmian truce by taking the
expedition upon himself. The Corinthians not consenting to this, a delay
ensued, during which the Athenians conceived suspicions of what was
preparing at Chios, and sent Aristocrates, one of their generals, and
charged them with the fact, and, upon the denial of the Chians, ordered
them to send with them a contingent of ships, as faithful confederates.
Seven were sent accordingly. The reason of the dispatch of the ships
lay in the fact that the mass of the Chians were not privy to the
negotiations, while the few who were in the secret did not wish to break
with the multitude until they had