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 56 THE COAST OF ASIA MINOR [iv 75 During the same summer Dcmodocus and Aristides, ., , ... two commanders of the Athenian fleet Ati/aitarHs, ivhtclt had become the head- which Collected tribute from the allies, quarters of the Lesbian happened to be in the neighbourhood exiles, is taken by the ^^ ^j^^ Hellespont; there were only Athenians. ■ * . -' two of them, the third, Lamachus, having sailed with ten ships into the Pontus. They saw that the Lesbian exiles were going to strengthen Antandrus as they had intended "^, and they feared that it would prove as troublesome an eneni}' to Lesbos as Anaea had been to Samos ^' ; for the Samian refugees, who had settled there, aided the Peloponnesian navy by sending them pilots ; they likewise took in fugitives from Samos and kept the island in a state of perpetual alarm. So the Athenian generals collected troops from their allies, sailed to Antandrus, and, defeating a force which came out against them, recovered the place. Not long afterwards Lamachus, who had sailed into the Pontus and had anchored in the territory of Heraclea at the mouth of the river Calex, lost his ships by a sudden flood which a fall of rain in the upper country had brought down. He and his army returned by land through the country of the Bithynian Thracians who dwell on the Asiatic coast across the water, and arrived at Chalcedon, the Megarian colony at the mouth of the Pontus. 76 In the same summer, and immediately after the with- Thc Athenians enter drawal of the Athenians from Megara, into communication the Athenian general Demosthenes u>,th the democratical ^j-rived at Naupactus with forty ships. faiiy in Bocotia, tvho *■ /- t-i • u undertake to betray A party m the citics of Bocotia, who Siphae,ivhilcthe Athen- wanted to overthrow their constitution ians seize Dclium. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ democracy like that of Athens, had entered into communications with him and with Hippocrates, and a plan of operations had been concerted, chiefly under the direction of Ptoeodorus, Cp. iv. 52. ^ Cp. iii. 19; iii. 32 init.