Diodorus Siculus

“ At this time, in order to carry on the war, two generals were chosen by the Athenians, Thrasyllus and Thrasybulus, who rendezvoused a fleet at Samos, and there trained and exercised the soldiers every day to inure them to fighting at sea. ”

“ And besides, Theramenes, one of the greatest authority in the commonwealth, a man eminent for wisdom and prudence as ever any before him, advised the recalling of Alcibiades. When the messengers returned to Samos with this account, Alcibiades joining nine ships more to those thirteen be brought with him, sailed to Halicarnassus, and there forced the city to pay him a large sum of money. ”

“ On the other side the Lacedæmonians, when they saw their enemies were fitting themselves for a conflict, they likewise, for five days together, employed themselves in exercising and trying their rowers, and then ordered their fleet, which consisted of eighty-eight sail, into a line of battle, and stood towards the Asiatic shore. The Athenians on ths other hand, drew out theirs all along the tract lying upon the borders of Europe; they were indeed fewer in number, but far more skilful in sea-affairs. The Lacedæmonians placed the Syracusans in the right wing, commanded by Hermocrates ”