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 154 HISTORY OF GREECE. and came into battle as each of them separately could ; whila the Peloponnesian fleet was well marshalled and kej t in hand ; so that the battle was all to the advantage of the latter. Tho Athenians, compelled to take flight, were pursued to Notium, losing fifteen triremes, several along with their full crews. Anti- ochus himself was slain. Before retiring to Ephesus, Lysander had the satisfaction of erecting his trophy on the shore of Notium ; while the Athenian fleet was carried back to its station at Samos. 1 It was in vain that Alkibiades, hastening back to Samos, mus- tered the entire Athenian fleet, sailed to the mouth of the harbor of Ephesus, and there ranged his ships in battle order, challeng- ing the enemy to come forth. Lysander would give him no opportunity of wiping out the late dishonor. And as an additional mortification to Athens, the Lacedaemonians shortly afterwards captured both Teos and Delphinium ; the latter being a fortified post which the Athenians had held for the last three years in the island of Chios. 2 Even before the battle of Notium, it appears that complaints and dissatisfactions had been growing up in the armament against Alkibiades. He had gone out with a splendid force, not inferior, in number of triremes and hoplites, to that which he had con- ducted against Sicily, and under large promises, both from him- self and his friends, of achievements to come. Yet in a space of time which can hardly have been less than three months, not a single success had been accomplished ; while on the other side there was to be reckoned the disappointment on the score of Per- sia, which had great effect on the temper of the armament, and which, though not his fault, was contrary to expectations which he had held out, the disgraceful plunder of Kyme, and the defeat at Notium. It was true that Alkibiades had given peremptory orders to Antiochus not to fight, and that the battle had been haz- arded in flagrant disobedience to his injunctions. But this cir- 1 Xcnoph. Hellen. i, 5, 12-15 ; Diodor. xiii. 71 ; Plutarch, Alkib. c. 35; Plutarch, Lysand. c. 5. I copy Diodorus, in putting Teos. pursuant to Weiskc's note, in place of Eion, which appears in Xenophon. I copy the latter, however, in ascribing these captures to the year of Lysander, instead of to the yetr of Kallikra tidas.
 * Xenoph. Hellen. i, 5, 15 ; Diodor. xiii, 76.