Thus equipped, the forces in Samos went on to defeat the Peloponnesians at sea Most probably the battle of Cyzicus , April 410. See Introd. ; and it was they, and they alone who saved Athens at the time. Now if those heroes rendered you true service by their deed, I may fairly claim that that service was in no small degree due to me. Had that army not been furnished with supplies just then, they would have been fighting not so much to save Athens as to save their own lives.