History of the Peloponnesian War

Meanwhile they completed their own long walls. After this the Aeginetans also capitulated to the Athenians, pulling down their walls, delivering up their ships, and agreeing to pay tribute in future.[*](455 B.C.)

And the Athenians, under the command of Tolmides son of Tolmaeus, sailed round the Peloponnesus, bullned the dock-yard[*](Gytheum, on the Laconian gulf.) of the Lacedaemonians, took Chalcis, a city of the Corinthians, and making a descent upon the territory of the Sicyonians defeated them in battle.

Meanwhile the Athenians and their allies stayed on in Egypt and the war took on many forms.

At first the Athenians had the mastery in Egypt, and the King sent to Lacedaemon Megabazus a Persian with a supply of money, in order that the Lacedaemonians might be induced to invade Attica and the Athenians thus be drawn away from Egypt.

But when he found that matters did not advance and the money was being spent in vain, Megabazus betook himself back to Asia with the money that was left, and Megabyzus son of Zopyrus,[*](Hero of the capture of Babylon, Hdt. 2.115.) a Persian, was despatched with a large army.[*](Diodorus gives him with Artabazus 300,000 men (11.75) and 300 ships (11.77).)