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24-27] EXPULSION OF THE AEGINETANS 121 with a hundred hopHtes. He dashed through the scattered parties of Athenian troops, whose attention was occupied with the fortress, and threw himself into Methone, suffering a slight loss ; he thus saved the place. The exploit was publicly acknowledged at Sparta, Brasidas being the first / Spartan who obtained this distinction in the war. The Athenians, proceeding on their voyage, ravaged the territory of Pheia in Elis for two days, and defeated three hundred chosen men from the vale of Elis, as well as some Elean perioeci from the neighbourhood of Pheia who came to the rescue. But a violent storm arose, and there was no harbour in which the fleet could find shelter; so the greater part of the army re-embarked and sailed round the promontory called Ichthys towards the harbour of Pheia. Meanwhile the Messenians and others who were unable to get on board marched by land and captured Pheia. The fleet soon sailed into the harbour and took them up ; they then evacuated Pheia and put to sea. By this time the main army of the Eleans had arrived ; where- upon the Athenians proceeded on their way to other places, which they ravaged. About the same time the Athenians sent thirty ships to 26 cruise off Locris, having an eye also to Thhiy sh,ps me sent the safety of Euboea. Cleopompus the /" Locris. son of Cleinias was their commander. He made descents on the Locrian coast and ravaged various places. He also captured Thronium, taking hostages of the inhabitants, and at Alope defeated the Locrians who came to defend the place. In the same summer the Athenians expelled the 27 Aeginetans and their families from The Athenians expel Aegina, alleging that they had been the "" ^'■^"■'"^/""^ f>o»t - , T-i • 1 11- thetr country. Some of main cause of the war. The island lies ^;,^ ^^.,y^,^. „,.^ ^^^^/^^ ^^ close to Peloponnesus, and they thought the Lacedaemonians in it safer to send thither settlers of their Thyrea. own, an intention which they shortly afterwards carried out. The Lacedaemonians gave the Aeginetan exiles the