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 MIXDARUS AT CHIOS. 10) motive for bringing this large fleet from Phenicia to Aspendua, and then sending it away unemployed. Having at length lost all hope of the Phenician ships, Minda rus resolved to break off all dealing with the perfidious Tissa- phernes; the more so, as Tamos, the deputy of the la', tcr, though left ostensibly to pay and keep the fleet, performed that duty with greater irregularity than ever, and to conduct his fleet to the Hellespont into cooperation with Pharnabazus, who still con- tinued his promises and invitations. The Peloponnesian fleet ] seventy-three triremes strong, after deducting thirteen which had been sent under Dorieus to suppress some disturbances in Rhodes having been carefully prepared beforehand, was put in motion by sudden order, so that no previous intimation might reach the Athenians at Samos. After having been delayed some days at Ikarus by bad weather, Mindarus reached Chios in safety. But here he was pursued by Thrasyllus, who passed, with fifty-five triremes, to the northward of Chios, and was thus between the Lacedaemonian admiral and the Hellespont Believing that Min darus would remain some time at Chios, Thrasyllus placed scouts both on the high lands of Lesbos and on the continent opposite Chios, in order that he might receive instant notice of any move- ment on the part of the enemy's fleet. 2 Meanwhile he employed his Athenian force in reducing the Lesbian town of Eresus, which had been lately prevailed on to revolt by a body of three hundred assailants from Kyme under the Theban Anaxander, partly Methymnoean exiles, with some political sympathizers, partly mercenary foreigners, who succeeded in carrying Eresus after failing in an attack on Mcthymna. Thrasyllus found before Eresus a small Athenian squadron of five triremes under Thra- fiybulus, who had been despatched from Samos to try and fore- Katll the revolt, but had arrived too late. He was farther joined 1 DioJor. xiii, 38. 2 Tlmcyd. viii, 100. Aiadopevof 6e  elrj, nai vo^iaag avrbv Kade!;tiv OVTOV, CKOTtoi); fiev KarEarfjaaTo nal ev TIJ Arer/fy, Kal tv rfj v- r t -f p a f 7; TT f I p (f>, fl upa Trot Kivoivro at vt/ff, oTruf /trf Adi9oiei', etc. I construe TTJ avwrfpar fae'ipt.). as meaning the mainland opposite Chios, not opposite Lesbos. The words may admit cither sense, since X<V nnd avroii follow so immediately before : and the situation for the sauts wai much more sui :ablc, opposite the northern portion of Chios. L13RAR7 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOMB*