e flourishing condition, and putting out to sea with
ten Peloponnesian and as many Chian vessels, after a futile attack upon
Pteleum, coasted on to Clazomenae, and ordered the Athenian party to
remove inland to Daphnus, and to join the Peloponnesians, an order in
which also joined Tamos the king's lieutenant in Ionia. This order being
disregarded, Astyochus made an attack upon the town, which was unwalled,
and having failed to take it was himself carried off by a strong gale
to Phocaea and Cuma, while the rest of the ships put in at the islands
adjacent to Clazomenae--Marathussa, Pele, and Drymussa. Here they were
detained eight days by the winds, and, plundering and consuming all the
property of the Clazomenians there deposited, put the rest on shipboard
and sailed off to Phocaea and Cuma to join Astyochus.

While he was there, envoys arrived from the Lesbians who wished to
revolt again. With Astyochus they were successful; but the Corinthians
and the other allies being averse to it by reason of their former
failure, he weighed anchor and set sail for Chios, where they eventually
arrived from different quarters, the fleet having been scattered by a
storm. After this Pedaritus, whom we left marching along the coast from
Miletus, arrived at Erythrae, and thence crossed over with his army to
Chios, where he found also about five hundred soldiers who had been left
there by Chalcideus from the five ships with their arms. Meanwhile some
Lesbians making offers to revolt, Astyochus urged upon Pedaritus and the
Chians that they ought to go with their ships and effect the revolt
of Lesbos, and so increase the number of their allies, or, if not
successful, at all events harm the Athenians. The Chians, however,
turned a deaf ear to this, and Pedaritus flatly refused to give up to
him the Chian vessels.

Upon this Astyochus took five Corinthian and one Megarian vessel,
with another from Hermione, and the ships which had come with him from
Laconia, and set sail for Miletus to assume his command as admiral;
after telling the Chians with many threats that he would certainly
not come and help them if they should be in need. At Corycus in the
Erythraeid he brought to for the night; the Athenian armament sailing
from Samos against Chios being only separated from him by a hill, upon
the other side of which it brought to; so that neither perceived the
other. But a letter arriving in the night from Pedaritus to say that
some liberated Eryt