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 CAPTURE OF LECILEUM. 339 into the plain of Corinth, to the foot of the newly-repaired Long Walls. Here his brother Teleutias, who had recently superseded Herippidas as admiral in the Corinthian Gulf, came to cooperate with him in a joint attack, by sea and land, on the new walls and on Lechaeum. 1 The presence of this naval force rendered the Long Walls difficult to maintain, since troops could be disembarked in the interval between them, where the Sikyonians in the previ- ous battle had been beaten and pursued down to the sea. Agesi- laus and Teleutias were strong enough to defeat the joint force of the four confederated armies, and to master not only the Locg Walls, but also the port of Lechaeum, 2 with its docks, and the ships 1 Xen. Hellen. iv, 4, 19 iv, 8, 10, 11. It was rather late in the autumn of 393 B. c. that the Lacedaemonian maritime operations in the Corinthian Gulf began, against the fleet recently equipped by the Corinthians out of the funds lent by Pharnabazus. First, the Lacedaemonian Polemarchus was named admiral ; he was slain, and his secretary Pollis, who succeeded to his command, retired afterwards wounded. Next came Herippidas to the command, who was succeeded by Teleutias. Now if we allow to Herippidas a year of command (the ordi- nary duration of a Lacedaemonian admiral's appointment), and to the other two something less than a year, since their time was brought to an end by accidents, we shall find that the appointment of Teleutias will fall in the spring or early summer of 391 B.C., the year of this expedition of Agesi- laus. 2 Andokides de Pace, s. 18; Xen. Hellen. iv, 4, 19. Tlape-yevero (5e airp ) Kal 6 a6eAbf TeAevrtac Kara dahaaaav, e%uv rpt^pstf Trepl ' ware paKapifradai avruv ryv fir/repa, OTI rfj airy f/[ipa uv ETEKCV 6 (lev Karii jrfv TU TEI^T) ruv irohe piuv, 6 6e Kara #a/la<7- aav raf vavf Kal r & v supia ij pexe. This last passage indicates decidedly that Lechaeum was not taken until this joint attack by Agesilaus and Teleutias. And the authority of Xen- ophon on the point is superior, in my judgment, to that of Diodorus (xiv, 86), who represents Lechaeum to have been taken in the year before, on the occasion when the Lacedaemonians were first admitted by treachery within the Long Walls. The passage from Aristcides the rhetor, referred to by Wesseling, Mr. Clinton, and others, only mentions the battle at Lechaeum not the capture of the port. Xenophon also mentions a battle as having taken place close to Lechaeum, between the two long walls, on the occasion when Diodorus talks of the capture of Lechseum ; so that Aristeides is more in harmony with Xenophon than with Diodorus. A few months prior to this joint attack of Agesilaus and Teleutias, the Athenians had come with an army, and with masons and carpenters, for th