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on to tho Hellespont. While halting ut Methynina, he comes across the 4Syracusan oonlingciit of '25 ships from
Ephesus to Aliydus. He captures four, and chases the rest back to Ephesus ; llien he takes his armament and joins
Alcibiades at Sestus.
409. —Clearchus is sent with 15 ships from Laconia to By7.antiuni and C'halccdon. He reaches destination with the destruction
of :i ships.
Spartans despatch a land force and ships to attack Pyhis. Tlic .\llienians send 3J ships for its defence ; but the fleet
is prevented by a storm from doubling (Aipe Male.i, and so returns again.
Pvlus surrenders to the Spartans.
The Megarians recover Nisaea.
408. The .\thenians now muster for the siege of Chalcedon and Byzantium, and they capitulate.
Alcibiades captures Selynibria.
407 Lysander sails with a squadron from the Peloponnese for Rhodes, and then continues on to Cos and to Miletus ; he takes
up his final station at Ephesus.
Alcibiades brings the Athenian fleet to Samus, and unilertakes an expedition against the coast of Caria for levying
money.
Thrasybulus, with .30 ships, goes to attack Thrace, and rciluccs Abdera, Thasus and the towns which had revolted.
Thrasyllus conducts another division of tlie army to Athens.
Alcibiades sails from .Samus with 20 shii)S, stops at Parus, visits the coast of Laconia, looks in at G3thium, and then
goes on to the Piraeus and Atlicns, where he is well received anil endowed with special powers.
Agis attempts to .surprise Athens. Tliough the Athenians gain ailvantage in a cavalry engagement, they would not
come out to fight. Agis then withdraws.
Alcibiades sets out from the Piraeus with his fleet, proceeds to Andrus and besieges it without success. He then
proceeds to Samus, leaving Conon with 20 ships at Andrus for the siege.
Alcibiades, un.able to bring Ly.sander from Ephesus to battle, proceeds to Phoeaea. where, with a part of his
.squadron, he joins Thrasybulus, who had come from the Hellespont. From Phoeaea Aleibiailes pliitiders Cyme.
During the absence of Alcibiades, Antioehns, who was left in charge of the fleet at Samus, sails across to Notium,
thence to the month of the harbour of Ephesus, and gives battle to Ly.sander's fleet. The Athenians are defeated
and putsucd to Xotiiim ; thence they return to Samus.
Alcibiades hastens back, musters the fleet and proceeds to Ephesus to give battle again, but Lysander would not be
drawn out.
Peloponnesians capture Teos and Delphinium.
Alcibiades is dismissed, and retires to the Chersonese. Conon, with his 20 ships, is sent from Andrus to supersede
Aleil)iades.
Phanosthenes, who is sent with 4 ships from Athens to take Conon's place at Andrus, falls in with and captures
Dorieus
406 — Callicratidas is .sent from Sparta to replace Lysander. He sails with his fleet from Ephesus to Miletus, and raises the
number of his sliips to 140. From Miletus he sails for Lesbus ; makes himself master of Phoeaea and Cyme, then
goes and captures Methynina.
Conon, with his ships from Sanms, approaches Methynina, but finding it taken, retires to the Hecatonnesi Islands ;
being pursued by Callicratidas, he enters the harbour of Mytilciie. A battle ensues, the Athenians are