Battle of Arginusae
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Arginusae · battle of the Arginusae · the naval battle · the sea-battle at Arginusae
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Hellenica (Greek)
But when Callicratidas, as his ship rammed an enemy, fell overboard into the sea and disappeared, and Protomachus and those with him on the right wing defeated the opposing Lacedaemonian left, then began a flight of the Peloponnesians to Chios, though very many went to Phocaea;
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Naval victory after which Athens controversially condemned its own victorious generals
In the sixth year after the overthrow of the Four Hundred, in the archonship of Callias of Angele, when the sea-battle at Arginusae had taken place, first it came about that the ten generals who had won the sea-battle were all condemned by a single show of hands—some who had not even taken part in the battle, others who had been saved on another's ship—the people being deceived by those who roused their anger;
Apophthegmata Laconica
The naval battle near Arginusae in which Callicratidas, rejecting his pilot's advice to retreat, engaged the Athenian fleet and was killed.
Designing to engage near Arginusae, when Hermon the pilot said, It is advisable to tack about, for the Athenians exceed us in number;
Hellenica
The major naval battle between the Athenian relief fleet and Callicratidas's Peloponnesian fleet near the Arginusae islands, resulting in an Athenian victory, Callicratidas's death, and heavy losses on both sides.
But when Callicratidas, as his ship rammed an enemy, fell overboard into the sea and disappeared, and Protomachus and those with him on the right wing defeated the opposing Lacedaemonian left, then began a flight of the Peloponnesians to Chios, though very many went to Phocaea;
The loss on the Athenian side was twenty-five ships, crews and all, with the exception of a few men who were brought to shore, and on the Peloponnesian side nine Laconian ships, out of a total of ten, and more than sixty ships of the allies.
The Athenians stood out to meet him, extending their left wing out to sea and arranged in the following order: