History of the Peloponnesian War

The capture of the town was effected before the great body of the Toronaeans had recovered from their surprise and confusion;

but the conspirators and the citizens of their party at once joined the invaders. About fifty of the Athenian heavy infantry happened to be sleeping in the market-place when the alarm reached them. A few of these were killed fighting; the rest escaped, some by land, others to the two ships on the station, and took refuge in Lecythus, a fort garrisoned by their own men in the corner of the town running out into the sea and cut off by a narrow isthmus;

where they were joined by the Toronaeans of their party.