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Excerpt from Notes, Grammatical and Rhetorical, Upon the Oration on the Crown: With an Historical Sketch The battle of nospot'ami which was fought in September or October, 405, B. C., resulted in the capture of almost the entire Athenian eet, only twelve triremes escaping of the one hundred and eighty-two of which it was composed. Farther resistance was impossible: Byzantium, Of Fomign Chalcedon, Lesbos, Thasos, Samos, indeed, all the Possessions cities either in alliance with Athens or dependent upon her, both on the islands of the Egean, in Thrace and in Asia Minor, submitted to Lysander, - thus was Athens stripped Capture of of her foreign possessions. Six months after, about the CM the middle or end of March, 404, B. C., the city itself was taken, and the Peloponnesian war ended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.