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The Athenians, however, did not come to the day; for their own
fleet was not of force sufficient to engage the Eginetans, and while
they were begging the Corinthians to lend them some ships, the failure
of the enterprise took place. In those days the Corinthians were on
the best of terms with the Athenians; and accordingly they now yielded
to their request, and furnished them with twenty ships; but, as their
law did not allow the ships to be given for nothing, they sold them to
the Athenians for five drachms apiece. As soon then as the Athenians
had obtained this aid, and, by manning also their own ships, had
equipped a fleet of seventy sail, they crossed over to Egina, but
arrived a day later than the time agreed upon.
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