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 340 CHIOS, LESBOS, AND THE HELLESPONT, [vill Endius' father •'^. — Nevertheless the Lacedaemonians, before giving an answer, sent a commissioner, Phrynis, one of their Perioeci, to see whether the Chians had as many ships as they said, and whether the power of the city was equal to her reputation. He reported that what they had heard was true. Whereupon they at once made alliance with the Chians and Erythraeans and voted them forty ships — there being at Chios already, as the Chians informed them, no less than sixty. Of the forty ships they at first intended to send out ten themselves under the command of Melancridas their admiral ; but an earthquake occurred ; so instead of Melancridas they appointed Chalcideus, and instead of the ten ships they prepared to send five only, which they equipped in Laconia. So the winter ended, and with it the nineteenth year in the Peloponnesian War of which Thucydides wrote the history. 7 At the beginning of the next summer the Chians were The ships arc to be ^agcr to get the fleet sent ofi" at once. dragged over the Isth- For their proposals, like those of the "'"^- other allies, had been made secretly, and they were afraid that the Athenians would detect them. Thereupon the Lacedaemonians sent to Corinth three Spartans, who were to give orders that the ships then lying at the Isthmus should be as quickly as possible dragged over from the Corinthian gulf to the coast on the other side. They were all to be despatched to Chios, including the ships which Agis had been equipping for Lesbos. The allied fleet then at the Isthmus numbered in all thirty- nine. 8 Calligitus and Timagoras, who represented Pharnabazus,, , , . took no part in the expedition to Chios, Agts, who had ong- ,. , ■ n- mally favoured Lesbos, nor did they offer to contribute to- acquiesces in the expedi- wards the expenses of it the money tion to Chios. ^^,j^j^j^ ^y^^^, j^^j brought with them. " Litcrallj', 'for Endius was called Endius the son of Alcibiades ;' iinplying that in the family of Endius the names Endius and Alcibiades alternated.