Demosthenes, whose credit with the Assembly must…

425 BCE

Demosthenes, whose credit with the Assembly must now be excellent, is in 425 authorized to use the Athenian fleet for operations around the Peloponnese.

He occupies and fortifies the remote promontory of Pylos in Messenia and, while the rest of the flotilla sails on to Sicily, remains with five ships at the harbor of the peninsula at Pylos.

Here, he manages to resist attacks by the Spartans, …

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