384 HISTORY OF GREECE. Metbymna as well as Eresus and all Lesbos was recovered by tho Athenians, while he himself was obliged to return with his forces to Chios. The land troops which had marched along the main- land, with a view to farther operations at the Hellespont, were carried back to Chios and to their respective homes. 1 The recovery of Lesbos, which the Athenians now placed in a better posture of defence, was of great importance in itself, and arrested for the moment all operations against them at the Hel- lespont. Their fleet from Lesbos was first employed in the recov- ery of Klazomena?, which they again carried back to its original islet near the shore ; the new town on the mainland, called Po- iiclina, though in course of being built, being not yet sufficiently 1 Thucyd. viii, 23. uTe/co^iffi?^ 6e nuXiv /card no?.eif /cat 6 a- - r uv v e u v TT d f, 6f irrt rbv 'F^Xqaxovrov tfuXhflttv levai. Dr. Arnold and Goller suppose that these soldiers had been earned over to Lesbos to cooperate in detaching the island from the Athenians. But this is not implied in the narrative. The land-force marched along by land to Klazomena: and Kyme (6 Trefdf u(ia TicTionowTjaluv TE TUV napovruv nal TUV aiiTo-div i-v/ii[iuxuv irapyet em K2,a&fievuv re KOI Kv/zT/f. Thucydides does not say that they ever crossed to Lesbos : they remained near KymS, prepared to march forward, after that island should have been conquered, to the Hellespont. Ilaacke is right, I think, in referring the words 6 u/ro rtiv veiJv irt^df to what had been stated in c. 17; that Alkibiades and Chalkideus, on first arriving with the Peloponnesian five triremes at Chios, disembarked on that island their Peloponnesian seamen and armed them as hoplites for land-forces ; taking aboard fresh crews of seamen from the island. Tho motive to make this exchange was, the great superiority of bravery, in heavy armor and staud-up fighting, of Pcloponnesians as compared with Chians or Asiatic Greeks (see Xenoph. Hell, iii, 2, 17). These foot-soldiers taken from the Peloponnesian ships are the same as those spoken of in c. 22 : 6 7reof upa Rcfoirowifmuv re ruv irapovruv /cat rtiv avro&ev v[ip.uxuv 6 UTTO T(JV veuv Tre6(. Farther, these troops are again mentioned in c. 24, as ol peru Xa?,Kt(5<?wf </li96frf He/MKovvrjaiot, where Dr. Arnold again speaks of them in his note incorrectly. He says : " The Pcloponnesians who came with Chalkid- ous must have been too few to offer any effectual resistance to one thou- sand heavy-armed Athenians, being only the cpibatce of five ships." The fact is that they were not merely the epibatau, but the entire crews, of five ships ; comprising probably from eight hundred to one thousand men (in fiiv rCiv K II eAoTr ov v TI aov veuv rovf vavrae 6^'^laavrcr h> X'uj Kara?.tfj.iruvovffi, c. 17), since there were a remnant of five hundred
loft of them, after some months' operations and a serious idcar, fviii. 32).
