going the right way to free Hellas in massacring men who had
never raised a hand against him, and who were not enemies of his, but
allies of Athens against their will, and that if he did not stop he
would turn many more friends into enemies than enemies into friends.
Alcidas agreed to this, and let go all the Chians still in his hands and
some of the others that he had taken; the inhabitants, instead of flying
at the sight of his vessels, rather coming up to them, taking them
for Athenian, having no sort of expectation that while the Athenians
commanded the sea Peloponnesian ships would venture over to Ionia.

From Ephesus Alcidas set sail in haste and fled. He had been seen by
the Salaminian and Paralian galleys, which happened to be sailing from
Athens, while still at anchor off Clarus; and fearing pursuit he now
made across the open sea, fully determined to touch nowhere, if he could
help it, until he got to Peloponnese. Meanwhile news of him had come in
to Paches from the Erythraeid, and indeed from all quarters. As Ionia
was unfortified, great fears were felt that the Peloponnesians coasting
along shore, even if they did not intend to stay, might make descents
in passing and plunder the towns; and now the Paralian and Salaminian,
having seen him at Clarus, themselves brought intelligence of the fact.
Paches accordingly gave hot chase, and continued the pursuit as far as
the isle of Patmos, and then finding that Alcidas had got on too far to
be overtaken, came back again. Meanwhile he thought it fortunate that,
as he had not fallen in with them out at sea, he had not overtaken them
anywhere where they would have been forced to encamp, and so give him
the trouble of blockading them.

On his return along shore he touched, among other places, at Notium, the
port of Colophon, where the Colophonians had settled after the capture
of the upper town by Itamenes and the barbarians, who had been called in
by certain individuals in a party quarrel. The capture of the town took
place about the time of the second Peloponnesian invasion of Attica.
However, the refugees, after settling at Notium, again split up into
factions, one of which called in Arcadian and barbarian mercenaries
from Pissuthnes and, entrenching these in a quarter apart, formed a new
community with the Median party of the Colophonians who joined them from
the upper town. Their opponents had retired into exile, and now called
in Paches, who invited Hippias, the