hraean prisoners had come from Samos to betray
Erythrae, Astyochus at once put back to Erythrae, and so just escaped
falling in with the Athenians. Here Pedaritus sailed over to join him;
and after inquiry into the pretended treachery, finding that the whole
story had been made up to procure the escape of the men from Samos, they
acquitted them of the charge, and sailed away, Pedaritus to Chios and
Astyochus to Miletus as he had intended.

Meanwhile the Athenian armament sailing round Corycus fell in with three
Chian men-of-war off Arginus, and gave immediate chase. A great storm
coming on, the Chians with difficulty took refuge in the harbour; the
three Athenian vessels most forward in the pursuit being wrecked
and thrown up near the city of Chios, and the crews slain or taken
prisoners. The rest of the Athenian fleet took refuge in the harbour
called Phoenicus, under Mount Mimas, and from thence afterwards put into
Lesbos and prepared for the work of fortification.

The same winter the Lacedaemonian Hippocrates sailed out from
Peloponnese with ten Thurian ships under the command of Dorieus, son of
Diagoras, and two colleagues, one Laconian and one Syracusan vessel,
and arrived at Cnidus, which had already revolted at the instigation of
Tissaphernes. When their arrival was known at Miletus, orders came to
them to leave half their squadron to guard Cnidus, and with the rest to
cruise round Triopium and seize all the merchantmen arriving from Egypt.
Triopium is a promontory of Cnidus and sacred to Apollo. This coming to
the knowledge of the Athenians, they sailed from Samos and captured
the six ships on the watch at Triopium, the crews escaping out of them.
After this the Athenians sailed into Cnidus and made an assault upon
the town, which was unfortified, and all but took it; and the next
day assaulted it again, but with less effect, as the inhabitants had
improved their defences during the night, and had been reinforced by the
crews escaped from the ships at Triopium. The Athenians now withdrew,
and after plundering the Cnidian territory sailed back to Samos.

About the same time Astyochus came to the fleet at Miletus. The
Peloponnesian camp was still plentifully supplied, being in receipt of
sufficient pay, and the soldiers having still in hand the large booty
taken at Iasus. The Milesians also showed great ardour for the war.
Nevertheless the Peloponnesians thought the first convention with
Tissaphernes, made with