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Title:  Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire
Author: Thucydides.
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with command to prepare for another better fight, and not to suffer a few Gallies to depriue them of the vse of the Sea. For they thought this accident (especially being their first proofe by sea) very much against reason; and that it was not so much a defect of the Fleet, as of their courage neuer cōparing the long practice of the Athe∣nians, with their own short study in these businesses. And therefore they sent these men thither in passion: who be∣ing arriued with Cnemus, intimated to the Cities about, to prouide their Gallies, and caused those they had before, to be repayred. Phormio likewise sent to Athens, to make knowne both the Enemies preparation, and his owne for∣mer victory; and withall to will them to send speedily vnto him, as many Gallies as they could make ready; be∣cause they were euery day in expectation of a new fight. Heereupon they sent him twenty Gallies, but comman∣ded him that had the charge of them, to goe first into Crete.Twenty saile of Athenians, sent to ayde Phormio, stay in Crete.For Nicias a Cretan of Gortys, the publike Host of the A∣thenians, had perswaded them to a voyage against Cydonia, telling them they might take it in, being now their Ene∣mie. Which he did, to gratifie the Polichnitae, that bor∣dered vpon the Cydonians. Therefore with these Gallies hee sayled into Crete, and together with the Polichnitae, wa∣sted the Territory of the Cydonians; where also, by reason of the Winds, and weather vnfit to take Sea in, hee wa∣sted not a little of his time.In the meane time, whilest these Athenians were Wind-bound in Crete,The Peloponnesians saile by the Coast of Panormus. the Peloponnesians that were in Cyllene, in or∣der of Battell sayled along the Coast to Panormus of Achaia, to which also were their Land-forces come to ayde them.Phormio likewise sayled by the shore to Rhium Molychricum, and anchored without it, with twenty Gallies, the same hee had vsed in the former Battell. Now this Rhium was of the Athenians side, and the other Rhium in Peloponnesus, lyes on the opposite shore, distant from it at the most but seuen furlongs of Sea; and these two make the mouth of the Crissaean Gulfe. The Peloponnesians therefore came to an anchor at Rhium of Achaia, with 77. Gallies, not farre from Panormus, where they left their Land Forces. After they saw the Athenians, and had lyen sixe or seuen daies one against the other, meditating and prouiding for the Battell, 0