e. Upon this they took to
flight, and after losing six ships with the rest escaped to Teutlussa
or Beet Island, and from thence to Halicarnassus. After this the
Peloponnesians put into Cnidus and, being joined by the twenty-seven
ships from Caunus, sailed all together and set up a trophy in Syme, and
then returned to anchor at Cnidus.

As soon as the Athenians knew of the sea-fight, they sailed with all the
ships at Samos to Syme, and, without attacking or being attacked by the
fleet at Cnidus, took the ships' tackle left at Syme, and touching at
Lorymi on the mainland sailed back to Samos. Meanwhile the Peloponnesian
ships, being now all at Cnidus, underwent such repairs as were
needed; while the eleven Lacedaemonian commissioners conferred with
Tissaphernes, who had come to meet them, upon the points which did not
satisfy them in the past transactions, and upon the best and mutually
most advantageous manner of conducting the war in future. The severest
critic of the present proceedings was Lichas, who said that neither
of the treaties could stand, neither that of Chalcideus, nor that of
Therimenes; it being monstrous that the King should at this date pretend
to the possession of all the country formerly ruled by himself or by his
ancestors--a pretension which implicitly put back under the yoke all the
islands--Thessaly, Locris, and everything as far as Boeotia--and made
the Lacedaemonians give to the Hellenes instead of liberty a Median
master. He therefore invited Tissaphernes to conclude another and a
better treaty, as they certainly would not recognize those existing
and did not want any of his pay upon such conditions. This offended
Tissaphernes so much that he went away in a rage without settling
anything.

CHAPTER XXV

_Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the War--Intrigues of
Alcibiades--Withdrawal of the Persian Subsidies--Oligarchical Coup
d'Etat at Athens--Patriotism of the Army at Samos_

The Peloponnesians now determined to sail to Rhodes, upon the invitation
of some of the principal men there, hoping to gain an island powerful by
the number of its seamen and by its land forces, and also thinking that
they would be able to maintain their fleet from their own confederacy,
without having to ask for money from Tissaphernes. They accordingly
at once set sail that same winter from Cnidus, and first put in with
ninety-four ships at Camirus in the Rhodian country, to the great alarm
of the mass of the