nder, had received precise intelligence of
the fleet from Leros, and when his colleagues expressed a wish to keep
the sea and fight it out, flatly refused either to stay himself or to
let them or any one else do so if he could help it. Where they could
hereafter contend, after full and undisturbed preparation, with an exact
knowledge of the number of the enemy's fleet and of the force which they
could oppose to him, he would never allow the reproach of disgrace to
drive him into a risk that was unreasonable. It was no disgrace for an
Athenian fleet to retreat when it suited them: put it as they would, it
would be more disgraceful to be beaten, and to expose the city not only
to disgrace, but to the most serious danger. After its late misfortunes
it could hardly be justified in voluntarily taking the offensive even
with the strongest force, except in a case of absolute necessity:
much less then without compulsion could it rush upon peril of its own
seeking. He told them to take up their wounded as quickly as they could
and the troops and stores which they had brought with them, and leaving
behind what they had taken from the enemy's country, in order to lighten
the ships, to sail off to Samos, and there concentrating all their ships
to attack as opportunity served. As he spoke so he acted; and thus not
now more than afterwards, nor in this alone but in all that he had to do
with, did Phrynichus show himself a man of sense. In this way that
very evening the Athenians broke up from before Miletus, leaving their
victory unfinished, and the Argives, mortified at their disaster,
promptly sailed off home from Samos.

As soon as it was morning the Peloponnesians weighed from Teichiussa and
put into Miletus after the departure of the Athenians; they stayed one
day, and on the next took with them the Chian vessels originally chased
into port with Chalcideus, and resolved to sail back for the tackle
which they had put on shore at Teichiussa. Upon their arrival
Tissaphernes came to them with his land forces and induced them to sail
to Iasus, which was held by his enemy Amorges. Accordingly they suddenly
attacked and took Iasus, whose inhabitants never imagined that the ships
could be other than Athenian. The Syracusans distinguished themselves
most in the action. Amorges, a bastard of Pissuthnes and a rebel from
the King, was taken alive and handed over to Tissaphernes, to carry to
the King, if he chose, according to his orders: Ias