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 105-107] EFFECT OF THE VICTORY 417 After the rout the Peloponnesians eftected their escape, 106 most of them to the river Midius first, and then to Abydos. Not many ships Effid of the batik on .. ., . r the mind of the Athen- were taken by the Athenians ; for the ,v„,5 .. i,ope of final Hellespont, being narrow, afforded a victory. Twenty - one retreat to the enemy within a short ^'''P^of the enemy n^ere J., »T .11 1 • 11 taken and fifteen of their distance. Nevertheless nothing could oivnlost have been more opportune for them than this victory at sea ; for some time past they had feared the Peloponnesian navy on account of their disaster in Sicily, as well as of the various smaller defeats which they had sustained ' But now they ceased to depreciate them- selves or to think much of their enemies' seamanship. They had taken eight Chian vessels, five Corinthian, two Am- bracian, two Boeotian, and of the Leucadians, Lacedae- monians, Syracusans, and Pellenians one each. Their own loss amounted to fifteen ships. They raised a trophy on the promontory of Cynossema, and then collecting the wrecks, and giving up to the enemy his dead under a flag of truce, sent a trireme carrying intelligence of the victory to Athens. On the arrival of the ship and the news of a success so incredible after the calamities which had befallen them in Euboea and during the revolution, the Athenians were greatly encouraged. They thought that their affairs were no longer hopeless, and that if they were energetic they might still win. The Athenians at Sestos promptly repaired their ships, 107 and on the fourth day were proceedinsr ^ , . ,.111, , Eight more Pelopon- against Cyzicus, which had revolted, „,,,«« ships captured when, seeing the eight Peloponnesian by the Athenians. They ships b from Byzantium anchored at "'"', 0'--'"« (17) -, . 1 T-^ . which has revolted. Harpagium and rriapus, they bore down upon them, and defeating the land-forces which were acting with them, took the ships. They then went and recovered Cyzicus, which was unwalled, and exacted a " Cp. viii. 95, 102. •> Cp. viii. 80 fin.