ing up with which Diomedon
had started from Athens after Thrasycles, fled, one ship to Ephesus,
the rest to Teos. The Athenians took four of their ships empty, the men
finding time to escape ashore; the rest took refuge in the city of the
Teians; after which the Athenians sailed off to Samos, while the Chians
put to sea with their remaining vessels, accompanied by the land forces,
and caused Lebedos to revolt, and after it Erae. After this they both
returned home, the fleet and the army.

About the same time the twenty ships of the Peloponnesians in Spiraeum,
which we left chased to land and blockaded by an equal number of
Athenians, suddenly sallied out and defeated the blockading squadron,
took four of their ships, and, sailing back to Cenchreae, prepared again
for the voyage to Chios and Ionia. Here they were joined by Astyochus
as high admiral from Lacedaemon, henceforth invested with the supreme
command at sea. The land forces now withdrawing from Teos, Tissaphernes
repaired thither in person with an army and completed the demolition of
anything that was left of the wall, and so departed. Not long after his
departure Diomedon arrived with ten Athenian ships, and, having made
a convention by which the Teians admitted him as they had the enemy,
coasted along to Erae, and, failing in an attempt upon the town, sailed
back again.

About this time took place the rising of the commons at Samos against
the upper classes, in concert with some Athenians, who were there in
three vessels. The Samian commons put to death some two hundred in all
of the upper classes, and banished four hundred more, and themselves
took their land and houses; after which the Athenians decreed their
independence, being now sure of their fidelity, and the commons
henceforth governed the city, excluding the landholders from all share
in affairs, and forbidding any of the commons to give his daughter in
marriage to them or to take a wife from them in future.

After this, during the same summer, the Chians, whose zeal continued as
active as ever, and who even without the Peloponnesians found themselves
in sufficient force to effect the revolt of the cities and also wished
to have as many companions in peril as possible, made an expedition with
thirteen ships of their own to Lesbos; the instructions from Lacedaemon
being to go to that island next, and from thence to the Hellespont.
Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chia