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and of the allies on the spot, moved alongshore for Clazomenae and Cuma,
under the command of Eualas, a Spartan; while the fleet under Diniadas,
one of the Perioeci, first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to
revolt, and, leaving four ships there, with the rest procured the revolt
of Mitylene.

In the meantime Astyochus, the Lacedaemonian admiral, set sail from
Cenchreae with four ships, as he had intended, and arrived at Chios.
On the third day after his arrival, the Athenian ships, twenty-five in
number, sailed to Lesbos under Diomedon and Leon, who had lately arrived
with a reinforcement of ten ships from Athens. Late in the same day
Astyochus put to sea, and taking one Chian vessel with him sailed to
Lesbos to render what assistance he could. Arrived at Pyrrha, and from
thence the next day at Eresus, he there learned that Mitylene had been
taken, almost without a blow, by the Athenians, who had sailed up and
unexpectedly put into the harbour, had beaten the Chian ships, and
landing and defeating the troops opposed to them had become masters of
the city. Informed of this by the Eresians and the Chian ships, which
had been left with Eubulus at Methymna, and had fled upon the capture of
Mitylene, and three of which he now fell in with, one having been taken
by the Athenians, Astyochus did not go on to Mitylene, but raised and
armed Eresus, and, sending the heavy infantry from his own ships by land
under Eteonicus to Antissa and Methymna, himself proceeded alongshore
thither with the ships which he had with him and with the three Chians,
in the hope that the Methymnians upon seeing them would be encouraged to
persevere in their revolt. As, however, everything went against him
in Lesbos, he took up his own force and sailed back to Chios; the land
forces on board, which were to have gone to the Hellespont, being also
conveyed back to their different cities. After this six of the allied
Peloponnesian ships at Cenchreae joined the forces at Chios. The
Athenians, after restoring matters to their old state in Lesbos, set
sail from thence and took Polichna, the place that the Clazomenians were
fortifying on the continent, and carried the inhabitants back to their
town upon the island, except the authors of the revolt, who withdrew to
Daphnus; and thus Clazomenae became once more Athenian.

The same summer the Athenians in the twenty ships at Lade, blockading
Miletus, made a descent at Panormus in the Milesian territory,