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 29-32] ILL FORTUNE OF ASTYOCHUS 357 seventy-four ships, and having the mastery of the sea, prepared to make a descent upon Miletus. Astyochus was at Chios selecting hostages as a pre- 3^ caution against the betrayal of the, , ,. • 1 1 A I 1 111. Aslyoclius fails in island to Athens ^ but when he heard „„ „,i„,k on Pukum of the reinforcements which Thera- and Clazonmiat. The menes had brought, and of the improved """^"' ^ '""^ "■§""""' prospects of the allies, he desisted, and taking with him his own Peloponnesian ships, ten in number'^', and ten Chian, he put to sea. Failing in an attack upon Pteleum he sailed on to Clazomenae, and demanded that the Athenian party should settle at Daphnus ^ on the mainland, and come over to the Pelo- ponnesians : Tamos, one of the Persian lieutenants of Ionia, joined in the demand. But the Clazomenians would not listen to him ; whereupon he assaulted the city (which was unwalled), but being unable to take it, sailed away with a strong wind. He was himself carried to Phocaea and Cyme, and the remainder of the fleet put into the islands, Marathussa, Pele, and Drymussa, which lie off Clazomenae. There, being detained eight days by the weather, they spoiled and destroyed part of the property of the Clazomenians which had been deposited in the islands, and, taking part on board, they sailed away to Phocaea and Cyme, where they rejoined Astyochus. While Astyochus was there, envoys came to him from 32 Lesbos: the Lesbians were once more -ri i u ' I lie Lesbians are eager to revolt, and he was willing to again desirous to rc- assist them ; but the Corinthians and '^''^"- Astyoclnts is the other allies were disheartened by „' l"^-, ° '^]f^ ' ■J 1 edantns, the new the previous failure. So he put to sea governor of Chios, and and sailed back to Chios. His ships '^'^ Chians, refuse to were scattered by a storm, and reached ■'^"'' Chios from various places. Soon afterwards Pedaritus and his army^ having come by land from Miletus to " Cp. viii. 24 fin. '' Cp. viii. 23 init. and fin. « Cp. viii. 23 fin. ^ Cp. viii. 28 fin.