Kitap 1
6.1
In the ensuing year—the year in which there406 B.C. was an eclipse of the moon one evening, and the old templeOn the Acropolis. On its identity see D’Ooge, Acropolis of Athens, Appendix III. of Athena at Athens was burned, Pityas being now ephor at Sparta and Callias archon at Athens—the Lacedaemonians sent Callicratidas to take command406 B.C. of the fleet, since Lysander’s term of office had ended (and with it the twenty-fourth year of the war).
6.2
And when Lysander delivered over the ships, he told Callicratidas that he did so as master of the sea and victor in battle. Callicratidas, however, bade him coast along from Ephesus on the left of Samos, where the Athenian ships were, and deliver over the fleet at Miletus; then, he said, he would grant him that he was master of the sea.
6.3
But when Lysander replied that he would not meddle when another was commander, Callicratidas, left to himself, manned with sailors from Chios and Rhodes and other allied states fifty ships in addition to those which he had received from Lysander. And after assembling the entire fleet, a total of one hundred and forty ships, he prepared to meet the enemy.
