History of the Peloponnesian War

When the Persians had retreated from Europe, defeated on both sea and land by the Hellenes,[*](At Salamis, Plataea, Mycale.) and those of them who with their ships had taken refuge at Mycale had perished there, Leotychides, king of the Lacedaemonians, wh1o was commander of the Hellenes at Mycale, went home with the allies from the Peloponnesus. But the Athenians, together with the allies fiom Ionia and the Hellespont,[*](The contingents from the islands and the coast of Asia Minor, who, in consequences of the battle at Mycale and the advance of the victors to Abydos, had been received into the Hellenic alliance.) who were already in revolt from the King, remained at their task and besieged Sestos, which was held by the Persians; and passing the winter there they took it, as it had been deserted by the Barbarians; and after that the contingents of the several cities sailed away from the Hellespont.