5. Detour on the way to
Sicily
(Thucydides 4.2-5,
4.8-23)
- 425;
beginning of summer campaigns
- Athenian general Pythodorus sent to Sicily
with a few ships to succeed Laches;
- 40 ships follow, commanded by Eurymedon and
Sophocles son of Sostratides (4.2).
- Demosthenes
accompanies the fleet, after having received permission to use it
along the Peloponnesian coast.
- The Athenians are directed to relieve
Corcyra on the way; exiles are plundering from the
mountains.
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