History of the Peloponnesian War

Against these the Athenians sailed out from Naupactus with thirty-three ships under the command of Diphilus.[*](He seems to have brought a reinforcement of fifteen ships and to have superseded Conon (cf. 7.31.4).)

At first the Corinthians kept quiet; then the signal was raised, when the moment seemed favourable, and advancing against the Athenians they engaged them. And for a long time they withstood one another. Three ships of the Corinthians were destroyed;