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146 HISTORY OF GREECE. at once. But they were astonished at their own success. Mis- taking the numerous camp-followers for soldiers in reserve, they retired back to the city. Their victory was however so complete, as to reopen easy com- muiication with the country, to procure sufficient temporary sup- plier, and to afford a certainty of holding out until reinforcement from Athens should arrive. Such reinforcement, indeed, AV;IS already on its way, and had been announced as approaching to Hypermenes (second under the deceased Mnasippus), who had now succeeded to the command. Terrified at the news, he hastened to sail round from his station, which he had occupied with the fleet to block up the harbor, to the fortified camp. Here he first put the slaves, as well as the property, aboard of his transports, and sent them away ; remaining himself to defend the camp with the soldiers and marines, but remaining only a short tune, and then taking these latter also aboard the triremes. He thus completely evacuated the island, making off for Leukas. But such had been the hurry, and so great the terror lest the Athenian fleet should arrive, that much corn and wine, many slaves, and even many sick and wounded soldiers, were left behind. To the victorious Korkyrseans, these acquisitions were not needed to enhance the value of a triumph which rescued them from cap- ture, slavery, or starvation. 1 The Athenian fleet had not only been tardy in arriving, so as to incur much risk of finding the island already taken, but when it did come, it was commanded by Iphikrates, Chabrias, and the orator Kalh'stratus, 2 not by Timotheus, whom the original vote of the people had nominated. It appears that Timotheus, who (in April 373 B. c.), when the Athenians first learned that the formidable Lacedaemonian fleet had begun to attack Korkyra, had been directed to proceed thither forthwith with a fleet of sixty tri- remes, found a difficulty in manning his ships at Athens, and therefore undertook a preliminary cruise to procure both seamen and contributory funds, from the maritime allies. His first act was to transport the six hundred peltasts under Stesikles to Thes- saly, where he entered into relations with Jason of Pherae. He persuaded the latter to become the ally of Athens, and to further 1 Xen. Hellen. vi, 2, 18-26 ; Diodor. xv, 4". l Xen. Hellen. vi, 2, 39