Dialogue

1 Menex|          vessels of war, and 300 ships, and Datis as commander,
2 Menex|        they could be defeated by ships, and at sea the Persians
3 Menex|      fear of numbers, whether of ships or men, to cease among them.
4 Menex|         in one day taken all the ships of the enemy, and defeated
5 Menex|    exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded at Mitylene.
6 Menex|          rescue with sixty other ships, and their valour was confessed
7 Menex| barbarians, depriving her of the ships which had once been their
8 Menex|         war, and built walls and ships, and fought with the Lacedaemonians
9 Menex|          without the loss of our ships or walls or colonies; the