History of the Peloponnesian War

As for the Lacedaemonians, when they saw how greatly they liad miscalculated, they concluded that the reports of the Lesbians[*](cf. 3.13.3, 4.) were untrue, and regarding the expedition as impracticable, since their allies had not yet arrived, and, besides, word had come to them that the thirty[*](cf. 3.7.1.) ships which were cruising around the Peloponnese were ravaging their own country districts, they went back home.

Later,[*](cf. 3.25.1; 3.26.1.) however, they prepared a fleet which was to be dispatched to Lesbos and sent orders to the allied states for forty ships, appointing Alcidas who was to sail as admiral of this fleet.

And when the Athenians saw that the enemy had withdrawn, they also returned home with their hundred ships.