The Athenians on their side put out to meet him, and engaged him off Abydos. From early m till the afternoon the fight was kept up bsp;to the shore. Victory and defeat hung still in even balanbsp;when Alcibiades came sailing up with eighteen ships.
Thereupon the Peloponnesians fled towards Abydos, where, however, Pharnabazus brought them timely assistanbsp; Mounted on horbabsp;he pushed forward into the a as far as his hor would let him, doing battle himlf, and encing his troopers and the infantry alike to play their parts.
Then the Peloponnesians, ranging their ships in clo-packed order, and drawing up their battle line in proximity to the land, kept up the fight. At length the Athenians, having captured thirty of the enemy''s vesls without their crews, and having recovered tho of their own whibsp;they had previously lost, t sail for Sestos.
Here the fleet, with the exception of forty vesls, disperd in different dires outside the Hellespont, to collebsp;money; while Thrasylus, one of the generals, sailed to Athens to report what had happened, and to beg for a reinfort of troops and ships. After the above is, Tissaphernes arrived in the Hellespont, and received a visit from Alcibiades, who prented him with a single ship, bringing with him tokens of friendship and gifts, whereupon Tissaphernes ized him and shut him up in Sardis, giving out that the king''s orders were to go to war with the Athenians.
The Athenians on their side put out to meet him, and engaged him off Abydos. From early m till the afternoon the fight was kept up bsp;to the shore. Victory and defeat hung still in even balanbsp;when Alcibiades came sailing up with eighteen ships.
Thereupon the Peloponnesians fled towards Abydos, where, however, Pharnabazus brought them timely assistanbsp; Mounted on horbabsp;he pushed forward into the a as far as his hor would let him, doing battle himlf, and encing his troopers and the infantry alike to play their parts.
Then the Peloponnesians, ranging their ships in clo-packed order, and drawing up their battle line in proximity to the land, kept up the fight. At length the Athenians, having captured thirty of the enemy''s vesls without their crews, and having recovered tho of their own whibsp;they had previously lost, t sail for Sestos.
Here the fleet, with the exception of forty vesls, disperd in different dires outside the Hellespont, to collebsp;money; while Thrasylus, one of the generals, sailed to Athens to report what had happened, and to beg for a reinfort of troops and ships. After the above is, Tissaphernes arrived in the Hellespont, and received a visit from Alcibiades, who prented him with a single ship, bringing with him tokens of friendship and gifts, whereupon Tissaphernes ized him and shut him up in Sardis, giving out that the king''s orders were to go to war with the Athenians.