History of the Peloponnesian War

Of the Thebans and the others who took part in the rescue, in all about twenty horsemen and hoplites perished, and among them Scirphondas, one of the Theban Boeotarchs; and of the population of Mycalessus a considerable portion lost their lives. Such was the fate of Mycalessus, which suffered a calamity that, for the size of the city, was not less deplorable than any of the events of this war.

At this time Demosthenes had finished building the fort in Laconia and was on his way to Corcyra;[*](cf. 7.26.3.) at Pheia[*](The port of Olympia.) in Elis he found lying at anchor a merchant-ship in which the Corinthian hoplites[*](cf. 7.17.3; 7.19.4.) were about to be carried across to Sicily, and destroyed it; but the crew and the hoplites, having escaped, afterwards found another vessel, and continued their voyage.