while Lacedaemonians were trying to land from shipboard in their own country, now become hostile, to attack Athenians, although the former were chiefly famous at the time as an inland people and superior by land, the latter as a maritime people with a navy that had no equal.
Laguntzerik ez zegoela ikusi zutenean eta gosez hiltzeko edo kopuruagatik menderatuak izateko arriskuan sar zitezen ere gura ez zutenez, erabaki zuten ezen, Pilosko jeneral atenastarrekin su-etena lortu ondoren, horretaratzen baldin baziren, enbaxadoreak bidaliko zituztela Atenasera akordiora heltzeko eta beren gizonak lehenbailehen ekartzen ahaleginduko zirela.