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21-23] ATHENIAN FLEET SENT OUT I19 summon an assembly or meeting of any kind, lest, coming together more in anger than in pru- //, refuses lo comply dence, they might take some false step. ^wVA Hieir wishes. He maintained a strict watch over the city, and sought to calm the irritation as far as he could. Meanwhile he sent out horsemen from time to time to prevent flying parties finding their way into the fields near the city and doing mischief A skirmish took place at Phrygia between one of the divisions of the Athenian horse skinmshatPhygia, assisted by their Thessalian allies on in which the Athemmis the one hand, and the Boeotian cavalry "^ worsted. on the other, in which the Athenians and Thessalians were at least a match for their opponents, until, the Boeotian infantry coming up to support the horse, they were com- pelled to fly. The Athenians and Thessalians lost a few men, but recovered their bodies on the same day without asking for a truce. On the morrow the Peloponnesians raised a trophy. The forces which the Thessalians brought to the aid of the Athenians, according to the terms of their old alliance ^ consisted of Larissaeans, Pharsalians, Cranonians, Pyrasians, Gyrtonians, and Pheraeans. The leaders of the Larissaeans were Polymedes and Aristonous, one from each of the two leading factions of their city; the Pharsalians were commanded by Meno. The forces of the other cities had likewise generals of their own. When the Peloponnesians found that the Athenians did 23 not come out to meet them, they moved ^, , , . , /. A t J J •'"^ Athenians send their army from Acharnae, and ravaged ^„^ hundred ships to some of the townships which lie be- cndse round Pelopon- tween Mount Parnes and Mount '"'; '^ '"""y '" x^ ., .... ., , .,, . tire from Atltca. Bnlessus. While they were still m the country, the Athenians sent the fleet of a hundred ships which they had been equipping on an expedition round the Peloponnese. These ships carried on board a thousand hoplites and four hundred archers ; they were under the " Cp. i. 102 fin., 107 fin.; iv. 78 med.