History of the Peloponnesian War

the city. The invaders remained as long as their provisions lasted, then withdrew and dispersed to their several cities.

Directly after the invasion of the Peloponnesians, all Lesbos,[*](Mytilene was an Oligarchical state with dependent towns, Antissa, Pyrrha, and Eresus, only Methymna on the northern coast with Athens. For the revolt, cf. Diod. Sic. xii. 45. The complaint of the Mytilenaeans was founded on the Athenian attempt to prevent their centralisation. See W. Herbst, Der Abfall Mytilenes, 1861; Leithäuser, Der Abfall Mytilenes, 1874.) except Methymna, revolted from Athens. The Lesbians had wished to do this even before the war, but the Lacedaemonians had not taken them into their alliance, and even in this instance they were forced to revolt sooner than they had intended.