nd of Phrynichus,
Onomacles, and Scironides, and putting into Samos crossed over and
encamped at Miletus. Upon this the Milesians came out to the number of
eight hundred heavy infantry, with the Peloponnesians who had come with
Chalcideus, and some foreign mercenaries of Tissaphernes, Tissaphernes
himself and his cavalry, and engaged the Athenians and their allies.
While the Argives rushed forward on their own wing with the careless
disdain of men advancing against Ionians who would never stand their
charge, and were defeated by the Milesians with a loss little short of
three hundred men, the Athenians first defeated the Peloponnesians, and
driving before them the barbarians and the ruck of the army, without
engaging the Milesians, who after the rout of the Argives retreated into
the town upon seeing their comrades worsted, crowned their victory by
grounding their arms under the very walls of Miletus. Thus, in this
battle, the Ionians on both sides overcame the Dorians, the Athenians
defeating the Peloponnesians opposed to them, and the Milesians the
Argives. After setting up a trophy, the Athenians prepared to draw a
wall round the place, which stood upon an isthmus; thinking that, if
they could gain Miletus, the other towns also would easily come over to
them.

Meanwhile about dusk tidings reached them that the fifty-five ships
from Peloponnese and Sicily might be instantly expected. Of these the
Siceliots, urged principally by the Syracusan Hermocrates to join
in giving the finishing blow to the power of Athens, furnished
twenty-two--twenty from Syracuse, and two from Silenus; and the ships
that we left preparing in Peloponnese being now ready, both squadrons
had been entrusted to Therimenes, a Lacedaemonian, to take to Astyochus,
the admiral. They now put in first at Leros the island off Miletus, and
from thence, discovering that the Athenians were before the town, sailed
into the Iasic Gulf, in order to learn how matters stood at Miletus.
Meanwhile Alcibiades came on horseback to Teichiussa in the Milesian
territory, the point of the gulf at which they had put in for the night,
and told them of the battle in which he had fought in person by the side
of the Milesians and Tissaphernes, and advised them, if they did not
wish to sacrifice Ionia and their cause, to fly to the relief of Miletus
and hinder its investment.

Accordingly they resolved to relieve it the next morning. Meanwhile
Phrynichus, the Athenian comma