The generals, however, and especially Tydeus and Menander, bade him
								be gone; for they said that they were in command now, not he. So he
								went away. And now Lysander, on the fifth day the Athenians sailed out against
								him, told his men, who followed them back, that as soon as they saw
								that the enemy had disembarked and had scattered up and down the
								Chersonese, —and the Athenians did this far more freely every day,
								not only because they bought their provisions at a distance, but
								also because they presumed to think lightly of Lysander for not
								putting out to meet them,—they were to sail back to him and to hoist
								a shield when midway in their course. And they did just as he had
								ordered. Straightway Lysander gave a signal to his fleet to sail with all
								speed, and Thorax with his troops went with the fleet. Now when
								Conon saw the oncoming attack, he signalled the Athenians to hasten
								with all their might to their ships. But since his men were
								scattered here and there, some of the ships had but two banks of
								oars manned, some but one, and some were entirely empty; Conon’s own
								ship, indeed, and seven others accompanying him, which were fully
								manned, put to sea in close order, and the Paralus One of the state triremes, which
									were employed for various public missions and as
									dispatch-boats. with them, 405
									B.C. but all the rest Lysander captured on the
								beach. He also gathered up on the shore most of the men of their
								crews; some, however, gained the shelter of the neighbouring
								strongholds. But when Conon, fleeing with his nine
								ships, realized that the Athenian cause was lost, he put in at
								Abarnis, the promontory of Lampsacus, and there seized the cruising
								sails that belonged to Lysander’s ships; then he sailed away with
								eight ships to seek refuge with Euagoras in Cyprus, while the
								Paralus went to Athens with the tidings of what had happened. As for Lysander, he took his prizes and prisoners and everything else
								back to Lampsacus, the prisoners including Philocles, Adeimantus,
								and some of the other generals. Furthermore, on the day when he
								achieved this victory he sent Theopompus, the Milesian buccaneer, to
								Lacedaemon to report what had happened, and Theopompus arrived and
								delivered his message on the third day.