History of the Peloponnesian War

And the Argives, having ravaged about a third part of Epidauria, also went back home. Moreover, there had come to their aid one thousand Athenian hoplites, under the command of Alcibiades, on learning that the Lacedaemonians had taken the field; as now there was no longer any need of them these withdrew.[*](Or reading πυθόμενοι δέ, with the MSS., “but learning that the Lacedaemonians had left the field”— which the verb means nowhere else—“and that there was no further need of them.”) And so the summer ended.

During the following winter, the Lacedaemonians, eluding the vigilance of the Athenians, sent a garrison of three hundred men, under the command of Agesippidas, by sea to Epidaurus.