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 202 SPEECH OE TEUTIAPLUS [iii to Athens on their own behalf. Until the envoys returned, Paches was not to bind, enslave, or put to death any Mytilenaean. These were the terms of the capitulation. Nevertheless, when the army entered, those Mytilenaeans who had been principally concerned with the Lacedae- monians were in an agony of fear, and could not be satisfied until they had taken refuge at the altars. Paches raised them up, and promising not to hurt them, deposited them at Tenedos until the Athenians should come to a decision. He also sent triremes to Antissa, of which he gained possession, and took such other military measures as he deemed best. 29 The forty ships of the Peloponnesians, which should The Peloponnesian ^ave gone at once to Mytilene, lost Jleet intended for Myii- time about the Peloponnesc, and pro- leni wastes time Ai- ^^^j^^ leisurely on their voyage. cidasjieanngofxtsfall,. -^ -^ -' ° sails to Embatum, and ^ '^^Y arrived Safely at Delos, before holds a council. Speech they Were heard of at Athens ; but on o/Teutiaplus. touching at Icarus and Myconus they found, too late, that Mytilene was taken. Wanting to obtain certain information, they sailed to Embatum near Erythrae, which they reached, but not until seven days after the fall of Mytilene. Having now made sure of the fact, they consulted as to what measures should next be taken, and Teutiaplus, an Elean, addressed them as follows : — 30 ' My opinion, Alcidas, and you, my fellow-commanders Let us hurry on to of the Peloponnesiau forces, is that we Mytilene. We shall should attack Mytilene at once, just as find the Athenians off u r • 1 • 1 their guard. The art ^^ ^'^' ^^^°^^. .^"^ ^^"^^^ ^^ ^^"0^"- of the general is to sur- ^^ ^11 probability we shall find that prise others, never to be men who have recently gained posses- surpnsec. ^j^^ ^^ ^ ^.^^ ^.jj ^^ niuch off their guard, and entirely so at sea, on which element they do not fear the attack of an enemy, and where at this moment we can strike with effect. Probably too their land forces, in the carelessness of victory, will be scattered up and